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Feminist theory has been at the forefront of critical analysis for morethan two decades. With dazzling insight, Maggie Humm highlights and explainsfeminist issues and offers a fascinating array of original film analyses. Feminismand Film is the first book to apply such a broad range of theory to contemporaryfilm. Humm begins with an in-depth historical survey of contemporaryfeminist theory, visual aesthetics and film theory, with a particular focus on thework of Laura Mulvey, Annette Kuhn, E. Ann Kaplan and bell hooks. Subsequentchapters examine the most pressing questions posed by feminism about reproduction, pornography and the gaze, autobiography and literary theory, postmodernism, Blackfeminism and "the personal is political" in relation to a variety ofmainstream and independent films, including Klute, Dead Ringers, A Question ofSilence, Orlando and Daughters of the Dust.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Feminism and Film
• Author: Maggie Humm
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258
• EAN: 9780253211460
• ISBN: 0253211468
• ID: 04450757
• Publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Weight: 550 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 165 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. September 1997

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