Feminism and film, then, involves a discussion both of feminist theories and of what feminist theories can help us to see and newly understand in some contemporary films. Brings together, for the first time, essays on feminism and film that trace developments in this field from 1973 to the present day. Looking for the other deals with race and ethnicity in film. Email citation an anthology of canonical works within feminist film theory that includes influential early essays and key debates on topics such as the gaze and the womans picture.
This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism. Ann edito da oxford university press a luglio 2000 ean 9780198782346. Essays chosen discuss and debate specific films which make the book ideal as a teaching aid. Summary looking for the other employs hollywood films about colonial or exotic travel, and those by women filmmakers of colour, to argue that male and the imperial gazes are intertwined in complex ways across cultures. Looking for the other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the. What exactly happens when whites look at nonwhites. Ann kaplan is distinguished professor of english and cultural analysis and theory at stony brook university, where she also founded and directed the humanities institute for twentyseven years. Summary this book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present day. Kino and the woman question feminism and soviet silent film. Through her analysis of four films depicting different cinematic periods, ann discusses how the male gaze in the camera eye, through its position of power, has defined, limited and viewed women wholly as erotic objects.
Feminism and film oxford readings in feminism 9780198782346. Ann kaplan global feminisms and the state of feminist film. Feminism and film oxford readings in feminism feminist. This monograph applies feminist criticism to a number of films, from work by welles and chabrol to arzner and trotta. Phrase searching you can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. With the advancements in film throughout the years feminist film theory has developed and changed to analyse the current ways of film and also go back. Ann kaplan is professor of english and the first director of the humanities institute, state. New york university press, 1999 anahid kassabian choosing a textbook for a women in film or a film and gender course is never easy. Feminism and film e ann kaplan haftad 9780198782346 bokus. Ann subjects feminism and motion pictures women in motion pictures feminist film criticism.
Feminism and film this collection of essays examines the role of feminist research in the emergence of film studies as a discipline, and traces the developments in theory, criticism and practices of women and cinema since 1973, detailing the contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged. She currently teaches english at the stony brook state university of new york, and is the founder and director of the humanities institute at stony brook university. Feminism and film oxford readings in feminism, edited by e. This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and. Ann kaplan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in boston university libraries. Read looking for the other feminism, film and the imperial gaze by e. She coined the term futuretense trauma cinema for a select group of films, a subset of the science fiction film, that focus on human and natural causes of complete social collapse instead of, as in standard scifi, displacing cultural anxieties into.
Feminism and film by maggie humm, 1997 online research. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Ann kaplan, 9780198782346, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Pdf feminist film theory criticizes classical cinema for its stereotyped. Deals with a range of feminist themes from the role of the actress to female friendship and lesbians in film. This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women. Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second wave feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the united states.
Ann and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. At the end of a century it is time to look back and take. Kaplan gives these four phases the following titles. Ann kaplan english department stony brook university. Looking for the other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. Bibliography includes bibliographical references p. An abc of the new wave in german cinema edited by roger f. Kaplan details the euroamerican contexts within which feminist film theories and practices emerged and traces the changing influences of french, german, and american intellectual movements on feminist film research.
Ann kaplan makes this basic concern of feminist theorists and filmmakers a critically important enterprise. These phases trace the dialectical and sometimes antagonistic development of feminist ideology from the golden age of the 1970s to the early 1990s. Feminism, film and the imperial gaze 9780415910170 by kaplan, e. For example, world war ii with quotes will give more precise results than world war ii without quotes. Looking for the other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of. At the end of a century it is time to look back and take stock of the social, cultural, historical, and ideological developments of the receding hundred years. Feminism and film oxford reading s in femini sm feminist film theory. Ann kaplan is an american professor, author, and director. That there is no monolithic feminism is a good, it at times uncomfortable, fact. Kaplan has divided the book into four parts, each of which represents one of four phases in the development of feminist film studies. The first nonstop rock video channel was launched in the us in 1981. A generation of readers in film and cultural studies have now explored the gaze.
Ann kaplan and other critics have examined how white men look at white women within western culture. This book brings together carefully selected essays on feminism and film with a view to tracing major developments in theory, criticism, and practices of women and cinema from 1973 to the present. This article will engage with the possibilities of feminist futures. Films from the berliner schule edited by rajendra roy and anke leweke, berlin school glossary. Ann kaplan looking for the other feminism, film and the. Cook, lutz koepnick, kristin kopp, and brad prager, the countercinema of the berlin school by marco abel. Buy feminism and film oxford readings in feminism by kaplan, e. It illuminates the powerful, if controversial, role feminist research has played in the. Beyond cinepsychoanalysis feminism film, show, cinema. Why the linkage of feminism and film matters is because all representations, visual or otherwise, are what make gendered constructions of knowledge and subjectivity possible.