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Feminist Film Theory: A Reader Sue Thornham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The list of media that has covered this event has been extensive and they have accomplished something very significant as female filmmakers and American Mary can be seen as a feminist film and a fine example of the art of film. There is something pushing me on, some sort of conspiracy theory impulse, a need to look for the kernel at the dark heart of all this apparent crap and ask: "What the hell is going on exactly? Posted by maresaharveycmp on November 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment. Each chapter will provide in-depth examples of how feminist theory is represented in popular culture as well as contain key words and theories throughout the chapter so that the reader will see which theoretical perspective the author is working from and what key terms will The sexual references, dismissal of rape scenes in film as opportunities for women to “show their boobs”, and sexualization of Quvenzhané Wallis via comments by MacFarlane and The Onion. Image from college project 2009. Though I still think there's value in old-school feminist film theory, I'm much more concerned now with production culture. Psychoanalysis in Film, Feminism and Cultural Reading. These dissonances "provoke the spectator into actively producing his or her own reading, in order to disambiguate the 'mixed messages' or to untie the knot of the double bind." Each spectator, then, arrives at a reading of the text that is at These modes of interpretation lie squarely within the bounds of classical narratological arugments and types of spectatorship such as the voyeurism of feminist film theory. Last semester, I took a class on media franchising. I actually really enjoyed the film, way more than I expected to, and so some part of me was quickly (as I watched) dismissing any feminist/patriarchal/nationalist critiques which did arise as I watched. Who works together to make the stuff we watch? A sexual difference-based analytical theory for feminist intent, and then by demonstrating how a psychoanalytic reading of a film can actually pervert the potential for a film deconstruction that could result in productive conclusions for feminist film and gender theory. Session 8 Wed 24 Now: Psychoanalysis in film, feminism and cultural reading. The connections between film and psychoanalysis exist at many The primary focus of this wave of psychoanalytic film theory was the process of spectator identification understood through French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan's idea of the mirror stage. The Feminine Mystique is worth re-reading. The theory of Freud, Lacan and their successors inspired the psychoanalytic direction of feminist film theory that initiated in the 1970s with Laura Mulvey's “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Since film theory is so strongly steeped in Lacanian logic, this reading is probably an appropriate exegesis of the plot, but combating misogyny from within the Oedipal framework would seem to be a fairly problematic pursuit.