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Feminist Film Theory: A Reader Sue Thornham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

I thought because I was reading all this theory and (if you consider Jessica Valenti and Film Theory academic) Hell, I like reading to connect things to what I am learning about in class. Items are listed alphabetically; any thematic classification is left to the curiosity of the reader. Reading it, I felt the pieces being put into place, and my instinctive scepticism about film theory finally getting the thorough, systematic justification I had been craving. Or learning about things we only brush upon in class. When I was reading that novel, It didn't seem like work. (1997) Feminism, Feminist Cinema, and “Thelma and Louise”: A View from Cybernetics. What I was missing was reading. Sure I was analyzing it, but it was quick and fun read. I realized I missed reading for fun. Other items belongs to semiology and film theory, that use psychoanalytic concepts in their analysis: for instance, Christian Metz , one of the most widely known semiologists interested in film, drew much on Lacan's theory; or Ikon – a Journal hosting articles in the fields of .. Wouldn't want to generalise about the standing of such theory today, but I doubt it has the same stranglehold of the centre of debate it did when Carroll wrote; having said that, there's still plenty of it in the Theory gene pool, often cross-bred with other approaches such as postmodernism and feminism). The love-struck hero admires the beautiful woman from afar — it's a classic example of the voyeurism and passivity that feminist film theory is based on. Film studies taught me that I'd spent my entire life “reading against the grain” to find the points of and places in entertainment that I could connect to, that I could love. The response from the group was The first theme, “Flesh,” taps into an emerging realm of thought in film theory regarding the body in performance, combined with the contemporary dialogue surrounding women's bodies in the political sphere. A journal of film and feminism (by Cléo Journal) Irked by the lack of feminist perspectives in film criticism, as well as female bylines in review sections, I suspected that I couldn't be alone in this point of view.