Issues in Feminist Film Criticism / edited by Patricia Erens.

Images and women / Robin Wood -- Unspoken and unsolved: Tell me a riddle / Florence Jacobowitz and Lori Spring -- Desperately seeking difference / Jackie Stacey -- Female narration, women's cinema: Helke Sander's The all-round reduced personality/redupers / Judith Mayne -- Feminist or tendentious? Marleen Gorris's A question of silence / Mary C. Gentile -- Anti-porn: soft issue, hard world / B. Ruby Rich -- Variety: the pleasure in looking / Bette Gordon.

Seduced and abandoned: recollection and romance in Letter from an unknown woman / Lucy Fischer -- Illicit pleasures: feminist spectators and Personal best / Elizabeth Ellsworth -- White privilege and looking relations: race and gender in feminist film theory / Jane Gaines -- The political aesthetics of the feminist documentary film / Julia Lesage -- Feminism, film, and public history / Sonya Michel -- Textual politics / Annette Kuhn -- In the name of feminist film criticism / B. Ruby Rich -- Rethinking women's cinema, aesthetics and feminist theory / Teresa de Lauretis -- Dis-embodying the female voice / Kaja Silverman.

Positive images: screening women's films / Linda Artel and Susan Wengraf -- There's more to a positive image than meets the eye / Diane Waldman -- The place of woman in the cinema of Raoul Walsh / Pam Cook and Claire Johnston -- Visual pleasure and narrative cinema / Laura Mulvey -- Film and the masquerade: theorizing the female spectator / Mary Ann Doane -- Hitchcock, feminism, and the patriarchal unconscious / Tania Modleski -- Women and representation: Can we enjoy alternative pleasure? / Jane Gaines -- Gentlemen consume blondes / Maureen Turim -- Pre-text and text in Gentlemen prefer blondes / Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca -- The case of the missing mother: maternal issues in Vidor's Stella Dallas / E. Ann Kaplan -- "Something else besides a mother": Stella Dallas and the maternal melodrama / Linda Williams.

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