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Looking for the other : feminism, film, and the imperial gaze / E. Ann Kaplan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: xxiv, 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0415910161
  • 041591017X
  • 9780415910163
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43652042
Contents:
Travel, traveling identies and the look -- Theories of nation and Hollywood in the contexts of gender and race -- Hollywood, science and cinema: the imperial and the male gaze in classic film -- Darkness within: or the dark continent of film noir.
[Part 2 Travelling postcolonialists and women of color] -- Traveling white theorists: the case of China -- "Can one know the other?": the ambivalence of postcolonialism in Chocolat, Warrior Marks and Mississippi Masala -- "Speaking nearby": Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage and Shoot for the Contents -- "Healing Imperialized Eyes": independent women filmmakers and the look -- Body politics: menopause, mastectomy and cosmetic surgery films by Rainer, Tom and Onwurah -- Afterword: Reversing the gaze, Yes: but is racial inter-subjective looking possible?
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General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 791.43652042 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 45362

CW124

CW027

CW027

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-322) and index.

[Part 1 Backgrounds: Theories of nation, psychoanalysis and the imperial gaze] Travel, traveling identies and the look -- Theories of nation and Hollywood in the contexts of gender and race -- Hollywood, science and cinema: the imperial and the male gaze in classic film -- Darkness within: or the dark continent of film noir.

[Part 2 Travelling postcolonialists and women of color] -- Traveling white theorists: the case of China -- "Can one know the other?": the ambivalence of postcolonialism in Chocolat, Warrior Marks and Mississippi Masala -- "Speaking nearby": Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage and Shoot for the Contents -- "Healing Imperialized Eyes": independent women filmmakers and the look -- Body politics: menopause, mastectomy and cosmetic surgery films by Rainer, Tom and Onwurah -- Afterword: Reversing the gaze, Yes: but is racial inter-subjective looking possible?

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