A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and Film (Palgrave Macmillan,
2008)
Caroline Bainbridge
Drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray, this groundbreaking study
intervenes in the debate around women and film. Women's films can be seen
as providing a new arena for the exploration of sexual difference and patterns
of representation and spectatorship. This timely book analyses films such as
The Piano, Orlando, Antonia's Line and The Silences of the Palace in order to
make the case that a feminine cinematics is now emerging through the scene
of women's filmmaking. Caroline Bainbridge moves beyond the framework of
textual analysis by making a compelling case for the importance of contextual
elements in contemporary women's cinema, foregrounding issues of
production, direction and reception.
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