324 Pages
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Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this work of feminist film criticism, Mary Ann Doane examines questions of sexual difference and knowledge in cinematic, theoretical, and psychoanalytic discourses. "Femmes Fatales" examines Freud, the female spectator, the meaning of the close-up, and the nature of stardom. Doane's analyses of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda trace the thematics and mechanics of maskes,... Read more
I. THEORETICAL EXCURSIONS, II. FEMMES FA TALES, III. THE BODY OF THE AVANT-GARDE, IV. AT THE EDGES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Biography
Mary Ann Doane (Author)
"Doane's insights into the ways in which women's bodies become a cinematic battleground are startling and illuminating. Likewise, her lengthy essays on psychoanalysis and racial difference and on the relationship between Freudian concept of sublimation and aesthetics (both written for this volume) are lucid and provocative, challenging the assumption that both race and aesthetics lie outside the purview of psychoanalysis." -- Publishers Weekly
