A Feminine Cinematics

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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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.

• cinema
• film
• gender
• women

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

• Roehampton University, London, UK

  Caroline Bainbridge

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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