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"Brilliantly argued and lucidly written... the definitive psychoanalytic account of the repression of woman in Hollywood cinema." Tania Modleski..". complex and challenging... " The Women"s Review of Books..". magnificently ambitious... some of the most original and intelligent essays in film theory today." Journal of Modern Literature..". deeply commited to the psychoanalytic approach... " Contemporary SociologyThe Desire to Desire traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified primarily by its lapses or failures, arguing that the women s film simultaneously asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze."

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Book category Knihy po anglicky The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Desire to Desire
• Subtitle: The Woman's Film of the 1940s
• Author: Mary Ann Doane
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780253204332
• ISBN: 025320433X
• ID: 04559958
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 346 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 157 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1987

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