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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 ideas.
It illuminates the six key concepts and demonstrates their value as tools for film analysis:
Testing their ideas with a number of other examples from contemporary cinema and TV, Shohini Chaudhuri shows how these four thinkers construct their theories through their reading of films.
An excellent study companion for all students of film theory and women's studies.
Author: Shohini Chaudhuri
ISBN-10: 0415324335
ISBN-13: 9780415324335
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2006
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.10w x 0.36d
Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 278
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).
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