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Introduction

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 1 –7

[Luce Irigaray’s extensive work has recently enjoyed something of a renaissance with a smattering of translations of her most recent work appearing in English (1983/1999; 1994/2000; 1994/2001; 1999/2002a; 2002b; 1985/2002c) and a number of monographs sketching the ongoing interest her work holds...

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Reading the Feminine with Irigaray

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 8 –31

[Luce Irigaray is a theorist whose work has been examined from many different perspectives in the last thirty years. Her work has both been scrutinized by feminists sympathetic to her writings and by those who are more hostile to her engagement with philosophy and psychoanalysis. There is a...

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Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 32 –60

[A significant proportion of feminist engagement with film theory has taken as its starting point the question of spectatorship and its relationship to pleasure and gender. This chapter will outline some of the key points of this debate in order to signal how questions of sexual difference and...

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Practising the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 61 –76

[Any discussion of a range of films made by women cannot be limited to analysis of the textual content of the work, as recent developments in the field of film theory have begun to make clear. As Angela Martin has suggested, a film is produced in a context of dialogue within which the filmmaker,...

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Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 77 –98

[Fantasy is central to psychoanalytic accounts of subjectivity and has become important also in the context of film theory, particularly in relation to efforts to theorize the cinematic treatment of gender. Some considerations of fantasy in relation to film focus on the fantasy genre and suggest...

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Screening Parler Femme: Silences of the Palace, Antonia’s Line and Faithless

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 99 –124

[As we saw in Chapter 1, the notion of parler femme has been central to much of Irigaray’s work, finding redefinition in the more recent writings as ‘the sexuation of discourse’. Parler femme is intricately bound up with the mother-daughter relation and with modalities of exchange between mothers...

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Orlando and the Maze of Gender

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 125 –154

[Gender as a structuring element of subjectivity is a key theme in Sally Potter’s film adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. This film, perhaps more than any of the others under discussion in this book, foregrounds the problematic of gender in its playful narrative. However, it is not just the...

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Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 155 –183

[Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) has garnered a great deal of both criticism and acclaim from commentators. The film is complex, dealing with issues of female desire, the maternal relation, post-colonialism and notions of language. The extensive critical engagement with this film suggests it is a...

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Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries

Bainbridge, Caroline

Pages: 184 –196

[The attempts made throughout this book to outline ‘a feminine cinematics’ depend on a technique of film analysis that incorporates both formal and text-based criticism against a contextual background. In any interrogation of cultural artefacts, there is a need to construct a critique in terms of...

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