...Janet Bergstrom Copyright © 1979 by Camera Obscura 1979 Rereading the Work of Claire Johnston Janet Bergstrom There is an argument running throughout Claire Johnston’s work which has to do with the relationship of the “progressive classical film” and a potential feminist...

...Ruth D. Johnston Camera Obscura 2003 Ruth D. Johnston is professor of English at Pace University, New York City, where she teaches and writes about film, literature, and critical theory. Her current project, which includes this article, is a study of masquerade structures and...

... Screen, vol. 14, no. 3 (Autumn 1973). "The Narrative Text of Shock Corridor", Screen, vol. 15, no. 4 (Winter 1974/5). ] ohnston,Claire. "Femininityand the Masquerade: AnneoftheIndies' '. jacques Tourneur. Claire Johnston and Paul Willeman, eds., London: Edinburgh Film Festival, 1975...

... authorship which had dominated film studies since the early 1960s. Appearing in 197.5, only a year after the pub- lication of From Reverence to Rape, Claire Johnston’s and Pam Cook’s 15 essays on Dorothy Arzner effectively redefined the terms of traditional auteur criticism by submitting the...

... C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E The Last Days of Women’s Cinema Patricia White Claire Johnston’s “Women’s Cinema as Counter Cinema,” with its injunction that “women’s cinema . . . embody the working through of...

...Lea Jacobs; Patrice Petro Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Editorial In her important and oft-cited introduction to The Work of Dorothy Arzner, Claire Johnston asked: “DO feminist critics simply want to introduce women into film history?” Johnston...

... essentializing the category woman? How can this be thought about in terms of specific films? Janet Bergstrom’s discussion of the seminal work of Claire John- ston in feminist film theory outlined several points from which to reevaluate Johnston’s proposals for a theoretical basis for a...

... Ceylon—A Clash of Cultures.” Third Cinema: Theories and Practices , edited by Pines, Jim, and Paul Willemen (London: British Film Institute, 1989 ). Johnston , Claire . “Towards a Feminist Film Practice: Some Theses.” Edinburgh Magazine 1 ( 1975 ): 50 –59. Kay , Shelley . “Confessions...

... missing link that can help account for Griffith’s designation of the symbolic father of the Klan first as Big Brother and, later, as the Little Colonel. Namesakes: The Genealogy of Our Little Colonels Through her series, The Little Colonel, Annie Fellows  Johnston (born in 1853 in Indiana...

... form employed not only by Mulvey but also by her con- temporaries in the 1970s — for example, Claire Johnston’s rejec- tion of an austere and antipopulist avant-gardism in “Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema”: “In order to counter our objectifi- cation in the cinema, our collective...

... exist side by side (like bottles bobbing together in the water on a lake), rather than in hierarchical or so-called progressive order. So if I wanted, as I often do, to revisit Claire Johnston’s work because it is useful for a current Althusserian and psychoanalytic project, I...

... remains the same. As this issue was going to press, we heard the sad news of Claire Johnston's tragic death, in London. Claire was one of the pioneers of feminist film theory. Her essay,"Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema," which appeared in the influential pamphlet that she edited...

... work of Claire Johnston. Vol. I, no. 3-4;pp. 21-31. Enunciation and Sexual Difference, Part I. Vol. I, no. 3-4;pp. 33-69. Alternation, Enunciation, Hypnosis: Interview with Raymond Bellour. Vol. I, no. 3-4; pp. 71-103. Camera Obscura Collective...

... Woman • Autobiography, psychoanalysis, hearsay • The phallus (a dead object?) • The work of (or homage to) Claire Johnston, Dorothy Richardson, and Ethel Waters • The Feminar of the late 1970s, the fi rst Console-ing Passions, and other gatherings • Women and Film • The Sony...

... Woman • Autobiography, psychoanalysis, hearsay • The phallus (a dead object?) • The work of (or homage to) Claire Johnston, Dorothy Richardson, and Ethel Waters • The Feminar of the late 1970s, the fi rst Console-ing Passions, and other gatherings • Women and Film • The Sony...

... Woman • Autobiography, psychoanalysis, hearsay • The phallus (a dead object?) • The work of (or homage to) Claire Johnston, Dorothy Richardson, and Ethel Waters • The Feminar of the late 1970s, the first Console-ing Passions, and other gatherings • Women and Film...

... Woman • Autobiography, psychoanalysis, hearsay • The phallus (a dead object?) • The work of (or homage to) Claire Johnston, Dorothy Richardson, and Ethel Waters • The Feminar of the late 1970s, the first Console-ing Passions, and other gatherings • Women and Film...

... historical writings. For ex- ample, in the publication accompanying the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival Special Event “History/Production//Memory,” Claire Johnston argued the necessity for film historians to address Foucault’s work on history.11 In the announcement for the 1981...

... all the scholarship that I have found to be important to my own work. Theorists who have discussed the female spectator in ways that I have found particularly useful include Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Claire Johnston, Judith Mayne, Tania Modleski, Laura...

... have found to be important to my own work. Theorists who have discussed the female spectator in ways that I have found particularly useful include Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Claire Johnston, Judith Mayne, Tania Modleski, Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman and...