Visual and Other PleasuresThe essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics. |
Contents
Fears Fantasies and the Male Unconscious or You | 6 |
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema | 14 |
Afterthoughts on Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema | 29 |
Copyright | |
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