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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I What is [feminist] cinema?
1 Classical feminist film theory: then and (mostly) now
2 Postcolonial and transnational approaches to film and feminism
3 Feminist forms of address: Mai Zetterling’s Loving Couples
4 Sound and gender
5 Gender in transit: framing the cinema of migration
6 “No place for sissies”: gender, age, and disability in Hollywood
7 Chinese socialist women’s cinema: an alternative feminist practice
8 Gender, socialism, and European film cultures
9 Queer or LGBTQ+: on the question of inclusivity in queer cinema studies
Part II Genres, modes, stars
10 Contested masculinities: the action film, the war film, and the Western
11 The rise and fall of the girly film: from the woman’s picture to the new woman’s film, the chick flick, and the smart-chick film
12 Moving past the trauma: feminist criticism and transformations of the slasher genre
13 Slapstick comediennes in silent cinema: women’s laughter and the feminist politics of gender in motion
14 Feminist porn: the politics of producing pleasure
15 The postmodern story of the femme fatale
16 The documentary: female subjectivity and the problem of realism
17 Experimental women filmmakers
18 Transnational stardom
Part III Making movies
19 Feminist and non-Western interrogations of film authorship
20 Pink material: white womanhood and the colonial imaginary of world cinema authorship
21 Women, Islam, and cinema: gender politics and representation in Middle Eastern films and beyond
22 African “first films”: gendered authorship, identity, and discursive resistance
23 Black women filmmakers: a brief history
24 Fair and lovely: class, gender, and colorism in Bollywood song sequences
25 What was “women’s work” in the silent film era?
26 Female editors in studio-era Hollywood: rethinking feminist “frontiers” and the constraints of the archives
27 Film as activism and transformative praxis: Women Make Movies
Part IV Spectatorship, reception, projecting identities
28 Psychoanalysis beyond the gaze: from celluloid to new media
29 Embodying spectatorship: from phenomenology to sensation
30 Deleuzian spectatorship
31 Film reception studies and feminism
32 Nollywood, female audience, and the negotiating of pleasure
33 Gender and fandom: from spectators to social audiences
34 Classical Hollywood and modernity: gender, style, aesthetics
35 Lesbian cinema Post-Feminism: ageism, difference, and desire
Part V Thinking cinema’s future
36 Revolting aesthetics: feminist transnational cinema in the US
37 Towards trans cinema
38 Visualizing climate trauma: the cultural work of films anticipating the future
39 Ecocinema and gender
40 Green Porno and the sex life of animals in the digital age
41 Class/Ornament: Cinema, new media, labor-power and performativity
42 Film feminism, post-cinema, and the affective turn
43 Fantasy echoes and the future anterior of cinema and gender
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