Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema
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Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema


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Marcelline Block's Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema breaks new ground in exploring feminist film theory. It is a wide-ranging collection (re)visiting important theoretical questions as well as offering close analyses of films produced in the United States, France, England, Belgium, and Russia. This anthology investigates exciting areas of research for critical inquiry into film and gender studies as well as feminist, queer, and postfeminist theories, and treats film texts from Marguerite Duras to 21st century horror films; from Agnes Varda's 2007 installation at the Pantheon to the post-Soviet Russian filmmakers Aleksei Balabanov and Valerii Todorovskii; from Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof to Sofia Coppola's postfeminist trilogy; from Chantal Akerman's transhistorical, transgressive and transgendered gaze to the quantum gaze in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park; from Hitchcock's good-looking blondes to the career-woman-in-peril thriller, among others. According to the semiotician Marshall Blonsky of the New School University in New York, given the breadth of the editor's choices, this volume makes a splendid contribution to feminist and cinematic fields, as well as cultural and media studies, postmodernism, and postfeminism. It lends readers 'new eyes' to view canonical and other film texts. David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, states that this anthology should be required reading for students and scholars, among other readers interested in the interaction of cinema with contemporary culture. Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship is prefaced by Jean-Michel Rabate's brilliant essay, Mulvey was the Firsta
About the Author: Marcelline Block (BA, Harvard; MA, Princeton; PhD candidate, Princeton) is Lecturer in History at Princeton. She edited Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema (Cambridge Scholars, 2008; 2010); co-edited Collaboration, a special issue of Critical Matrix (vol. 18, 2009), and co-edited Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative (Cambridge Scholars, 2010). She contributed chapters to anthologies including The Many Ways We Talk about Death in Contemporary Society: Interdisciplinary Studies in Portrayal and Classification (2009) and Vendetta: Essays on Honor and Revenge (2010). Her articles have appeared in the journals Excavatio, vol. XXII: Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies (2007); The Harvard French Review (2007), and Women in French Studies (2009, 2010). Her writing has been published in French in Vingtieme Siecle: revue d'histoire (vol. 96, 2007) and in Russian in -: - I /Russian Art Beyond Borders: Late 20th Century-Early 21st Century (2010).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781847186645
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Height: 208 mm
  • No of Pages: 410
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 684 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1847186645
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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