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A Feminine Cinematics

Luce Irigaray, Women and Film

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Caroline Bainbridge

    1. Roehampton University, London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 1-7

  3. Reading the Feminine with Irigaray

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 8-31

  4. Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 32-60

  5. Practising the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 61-76

  6. Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 77-98

  7. Screening Parler Femme: Silences of the Palace, Antonia’s Line and Faithless

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 99-124

  8. Orlando and the Maze of Gender

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 125-154

  9. Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 155-183

  10. Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries

    • Caroline Bainbridge
    Pages 184-196

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-223
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About this book

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and spectatorship, it also examines the importance of contexts of production, direction and reception.

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Highly Commended in Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize, 2009

'This is a scholarly and important book in feminist film theory and women's cinema. It is eloquent and well written and successfully introduces the ideas of Luce Irigaray to the non-specialist reader. It should be on the reading list for all film studies courses.' - Judges' comments, FWSA Book Prize

Authors and Affiliations

  • Roehampton University, London, UK

    Caroline Bainbridge

About the author

CAROLINE BAINBRIDGE is Reader in Visual Culture at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (2007) and co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious (2007). She has also published articles in journals such as Screen, Paragraph and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

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