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1. Looking for the Other

   Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

   By E. Ann Kaplan

   What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as...

   Published March 5th 1997 by Routledge
2. Motherhood and Representation

   The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

   By E. Ann Kaplan

   From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations...

   Published May 6th 1992 by Routledge
3. Psychoanalysis and Cinema

   Edited by E. Ann Kaplan

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Years of Our Lives, Three Faces of...

   Published December 27th 1989 by Routledge
4. Women & Film

   By E. Ann Kaplan

   "Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, "Women and Film" is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area."--"The Arts"...

   Published November 2nd 1983 by Routledge