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  1. Femmes Fatales

    By Mary Ann Doane

    A major work of feminist film criticism examining questions of sexual difference, the female body and the female spectator through a discussion of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda....

    Published August 21st 1991 by Routledge

  2. In a Lonely Street

    Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity

    By Frank Krutnik

    Taking issue with many orthodox views of Film Noir, Frank Krutnik argues for a reorientation of this compulsively engaging area of Hollywood cultural production. Krutnik recasts the films within a generic framework and draws on recent historical and theoretical research to examine both the...

    Published August 7th 1991 by Routledge

  3. What a Man's Gotta Do

    The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture

    By Anthony Easthope

    What is masculinity? Drawing on psychoanalysis and an understanding of ideology, Easthope shows how the masculine myth forces men to try to be masculine and only masculine, denying their feminine side. In an original contribution to the understanding of gender, he analyzes masculinity as it is...

    Published September 14th 1990 by Routledge

  4. 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

  5. Feminism and Film Theory

    Edited by Constance Penley

    Published September 22nd 1988 by Routledge

  6. 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

Forthcoming Books

  1. Interpreting Tyler Perry: Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
    Edited by Jamel Santa Cruze Bell, Ronald L. Jackson II
    To Be Published September 3rd 2013
  2. Film and Gender
    Edited by Sue Thornham, Niall Richardson
    To Be Published October 3rd 2013
  3. Off Screen: Women and Film in Italy: Seminar on Italian and American directions
    Edited by Giuliana Bruno, Maria Nadotti
    To Be Published October 31st 2013
  4. Popular Music and Masculinity in Action Films
    By Amanda Howell
    To Be Published December 31st 2013
  5. Film Theories and Philosophies of Colour: The Residual Image
    By Elizabeth Watkins
    To Be Published March 31st 2014

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