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Dear Film-Philosophy Subscribers, I hope the following is of interest to you: Into the Vortex Female Voice and Paradox in Film Britta H. Sjogren A pathbreaking feminist analysis of sound's shifting relation to image in film Into the Vortex challenges and rethinks feminist film theory's brilliant but often pessimistic reflections on the workings of sound and voice in film. Including close readings of major film theorists such as Kaja Silverman and Mary Ann Doane, Britta H. Sjogren offers an alternative to image-centered scenarios that dominate feminist film theory's critique of the representation of sexual difference. Sjogren focuses on a rash of 1940s Hollywood films in which the female voice bears a marked formal presence to demonstrate the ways that the feminine is expressed and difference is sustained. She argues that these films capitalize on particular psychoanalytic, narratological and discursive contradictions to bring out and express difference, rather than to contain or close it down. Exploring the vigorous dynamic engendered by contradiction and paradox, Sjogren charts a way out of the pessimistic, monolithic view of patriarchy and cinema's representation of women's voices. BRITTA H. SJOGREN is a filmmaker and associate professor of cinema at San Francisco State University. Her films include Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions (1992), A Small Domain (1996, Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at Sundance) and In This Short Life (2005). University of Illinois Press Feb 2006 248 pp 25 photos £12.95 PB 0-252-07267-7 SPECIAL DISCOUNTED PRICE OF £9.00 to FILM-PHILOSOPHY Subscribers Postage and Packing £2.75 To order a copy please contact Marston on 44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask] or visit our website www.combinedacademic.demon.co.uk (Please quote reference FP0303IV). Julia Monk Marketing Manager Combined Academic Publishers 48 Baldslow Road Hastings East Sussex TN34 2EY Tel/Fax: 44 (0)1424 436533 Email: [log in to unmask] * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **