Feminist Film Theory by Sue Thornham
This anthology brings together the key statements from the main debates in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970. The book maps the impact of major theoretical developments on this growing field, in terms of both theoretical shifts and changes in methodologies.
Like feminist theory in general, feminist film theory has undergone considerable change and revision since its heady days of the early 1970sThis collection of 23 representative essays and extracts illustrates this history extremely well, providing a useful framework for understanding the variety to be found in feminist film analysis ...The range of material, and helpful introductions, make this an ideal teaching text. Like feminist theory in general, feminist film theory has undergone considerable change and revision since its heady days of the early 1970s. This collection of 23 representative essays and extracts illustrates this history extremely well, providing a useful framework for understanding the variety to be found in feminist film analysis ...The range of material, and helpful introductions, make this an ideal teaching text.
Sue Thornham is emerita Professor of Film and Media at the University of Sussex. She is author of Passionate Detachments (1997), Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies (2001), Approaches to TV Drama (2004, with Tony Purvis), Women, Feminism and Media (2007), What if I Had Been the Hero? Investigating Women’s Filmmaking (2012) and Spaces of Women’s Cinema (2019). She is also author of numerous articles on feminist theory and film and television texts, and editor of three key collections, Feminist Film Theory: A Reader (1999), Media Studies: A Reader (3rd edition, 2009) and Film and Gender (2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748608904 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748608907 |
| Title | Feminist Film Theory |
| Author | Sue Thornham |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 1999-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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