Notes on Contributors Introduction Phase One: Pioneers and Classics: The Modernist Mode Introductory Notes Woman's Cinema as Counter-Cinema, Claire Johnston Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey Woman as Sign, Elizabeth Cowie Klute 1: A Contemporary Film Noir and Feminist Criticism, Christine Gledhill Woman's Stake: Filming the Female Body, Mary Ann Doane Male Subjectivity and Celestial Satire: It's a Wonderful Life, Kaja Silverman Is the Gaze Male?, E. Ann Kaplan Dorothy Arzner: Critical Strategies, Claire Johnston Phase Two: Critiques of Phase One Theories: New Methods Introductory Notes Lesbian Looks: Dorothy Arzner and Female Authorship, Judith Mayne The Difficulty of Difference, David N. Rodowick Masochism and the Perverse Pleasures of the Cinema, Gaylyn Studlar Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship, Miriam Hansen Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men and Mainstream Cinema, Steve Neale Strategies of Coherence: Narrative, Cinema, Feminist Poetics, Yvonne Rainer, Teresa de Lauretis The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan, Joan Copjec Phase Three: Race, Sexuality, and Postmodernism in Feminist Theory Introductory Notes Speaking Nearby, Trinh T. Minh-ha and Nancy N. Chen White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory, Jane Gaines Racism, Representation, and Psychoanalysis, Claire Pajaczkowska, and Lola Young That Moment of Emergence, Pratibha Parmar Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation, Teresa de Lauretis Phase Four: Spectatorship, Ethnicity, and Melodrama Introductory Notes Film and the Masquerade: Theorizing the Female Spectator, Mary Ann Doane Women's Genres, Annette Kuhn Desperately Seeking Difference, Jackie Stacey The Case of the Missing Mother: Maternal Issues in Vidor's Stella Dallas, E. Ann Kaplan 'Something Else Besides a Mother': Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama, Linda Williams Tears and Desire: Women and Melodrama in the 'Old' Mexican Cinema, Ana M. Lopez Three Men and Baby M, Tania Modleski The Carapace that Failed: Ousame Sembene's Xala, Laura Mulvey Further Reading Index

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