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...Diane Waldman Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Film Theory and the Gendered Spectator: The Female or the Feminist Reader? Diane Waldman Like literary theory and criticism, film theory has moved from a notion of meaning immanent in the text to a concern...

... the film sound theorist Michel Chion calls the acousmêtre , or the acousmatic voice. By bringing together Chion, Lacan, and feminist film theory, the article analyzes the acousmatization of the male voice in Gabbeh (dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran/France, 1996) and Banoo-ye ordibehesht ( The May Lady , dir...

... study for considering women’s filmmaking in neoliberal times because of its centrality to the development of feminist film theory at an earlier historical moment in the 1970s. Reframing the history of the West German feminist film movement, the introduction considers the unfolding of new practices...

... and feminist film theory . Cinéfille is conceptually both similar to and different from its near homophone, cinéphile , and aligns the moving image ( ciné ) with the girl ( fille ). The article develops the concept in relation to three areas: the possibility of a cine‐love before and beyond the masculine frame...

... film theory and practice and feminist and queer video game culture and criticism. Diana Pozo organizes the Queerness and Games Conference and taught the Queerness and Games Design Workshop at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015. Pozo recently graduated from the University...

... covers the growth of the organization since the 1970s, the close connection between feminist film theory and independent filmmaking in the 1980s, changes in the culture of documentary, gender inequities in film directing and in financing of films about women, the impact of digital culture on educational...

... in person during a fictional convention called AwesomeCon; during the course of a single playthrough they can become friends, get into heated arguments, or simply have an awkward conversation and leave. In a similar tradition to ideas advanced in feminist film theory such as Kaja Silverman's Subject...

..., my ex- perience with feminist film theory has been analogous to the situation Balmary describes. During graduate school in the early eighties, I became extremely dissatisfied with the prevailing formulations of fe- 301 male representation and male spectatorship, derived...

.... [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Camera Obscura 2025 conspiracy theories paranoia reparative reading feminist film studies It's easy to ignore exploitation; sometimes you're too busy exposing its source. Ought we to bother conspiracy theorists with banal surface-level harm when...

..., address the questionnaire’s dual concerns of theory and experi- ence, first by devoting a lengthy introductory chapter to issues in feminist film theory, where spectatorship plays an absolutely central role, and then by outlining a short preface which traces my own development as a feminist...

... from feminist and queer theoretical approaches that I will later discuss — but the suspicion of “prettiness” nonetheless remains strangely resilient. We might think, for example, of the commonplace of “empty spectacle” as a figure of critique in film writing from journalism to theory.3 I would...

... to bed on doctor’s orders, or the solicitous husband who anxiously monitors his wife’s physical and mental state. Christine Gledhill argues that Hollywood melodrama has operated as an imagined point of origin and identification across time for feminist film theory: Melodrama addresses...

... in the day, there were scores of women’s film festivals and an active feminist community supporting them, one that included feminist film schol- ars who created context, theory, and analysis for the films and their feminist audiences. Currently, feminists make mainstream narrative films and HBO...

... as for the women who saw and discussed them. As theoretical work on the cinematic representation of women ex- panded, my own perspective was influenced by psychoanalytic, semi- otic and post-structuralist theories as these were interpreted and util- ized by feminist film scholars. But developing alongside...

... of “the” dispersed subject as inherently progressive. Some of these applications and assumptions informed feminist film theory at the time, but there theorists also exposed problems in conceiving of the subject as mobile. For example, when Mary Ann Doane cast a critical eye...

...Rhona Berenstein Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1989 ADDITIONAL REFERENCES Armatage , Kay . “Joyce Wieland: The Body of the Work.” Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory (Summer 1989 ). Armatage , Kay “Fashion in Feminist Film Theory...

... that have always formed the basis for feminist inquiry. The fact that many call feminist film history “new” is sur- prising, since scholarship that carried out feminist film history or that synthesized feminist film theory and history has existed since the onset of second-wave feminism...

... yet to appear, and Molly Haskell and Marjorie Rosen had yet to publish their books. By the time my dissertation was published in 1978, feminist film criticism and theory were becoming established within the discipline of film studies. Clearly my thesis, Virgins, Vamps and Flappers...

... (and even overused) to describe male subjectivity and spectatorship. It was inevitable that feminist film theory turn to the issue of mas- culinity, after fifteen years of examining female spectatorship and the construction of femininity in film narrative. Having established that the role...