Feminist Film Studies: Writing the Woman into Cinema provides an introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse that grew in cultural significance since the early 1970s to the present. Janet McCabe traces the broad-ranging knowledges produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race and queer theory. This book thus documents a dynamic critical field, charting the numerous feminist interventions, and critically assesses how the social, political and cultural contexts informed debates and shaped the writing of a feminist film theory.

Janet McCabe teaches film at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published on feminist film theory and women’s narrative/narration in quality American television. 

2004
144 pages
978-1-904764-03-8   £12.99 (pbk)


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‘This readable history of the intellectual evolution of feminist film studies emerges after real "road-testing" in the classroom. I have no doubt that it will help students latch on to key concepts, and assist others in refreshing their knowledge and understanding more clearly the interrelatedness of critical and theoretical debates.’
Diane Negra, University of East Anglia


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