1st Edition

Feminist Film Theorists Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, Barbara Creed

By Shohini Chaudhuri Copyright 2007
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis and Barbara Creed, this book explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionized the way that films and their spectators can be understood. Examining the new and distinctive approaches of each of these thinkers, this book provides the most detailed account so far of their... Read more

Acknowledgements  Why Mulvey, Silverman, de Lauretis, and Creed?  Key Ideas  1. Beginnings  2. The Male Gaze  3. The Female Voice  4. Technologies of Gender  5. Queering Desire  6. The Monstrous-Feminine  7. Masculinity in Crisis.  After Mulvey, Silverman, de Lauretis, Creed.  Further Reading  Works Cited  Index

Biography

Shohini Chaudhuri is Lecturer in Contemporary Writing and Film at the University of Essex. Her articles have appeared in Screen, Camera Obscura, and Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics. She has recently published a book called Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia (2005).