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Representing the Woman

Cinema and Psychoanalysis

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Elizabeth Cowie

    1. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

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Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society (LDS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Woman’s Image — A Woman’s Imaging

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 1-14

  3. Feminist Arguments

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 15-35

  4. Narrative Positions and the Placing of the Woman Protagonist in Coma

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 36-71

  5. Identifying in the Cinema

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 72-122

  6. Fantasia

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 123-165

  7. The Partiality of the Drives and the Pleasures of the Look in Cinema’s Voyeurism

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 166-221

  8. Female Sexuality, Feminine Identification and the Masquerade

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 222-260

  9. Figuring the Fetish

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 261-281

  10. The Fetish of Ideology

    • Elizabeth Cowie
    Pages 282-315

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 316-397
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Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis examines the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, Elizabeth Cowie draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan to propose a new understanding of the relation of identification, fantasy and the drives, and of voyeurism and fetishism to the pleasures of cinema and to the making of the feminine and masculine spectators of film.

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  • University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Elizabeth Cowie

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