Feminist Film Theory: A Reader Sue Thornham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

I just 'self-archived' a pre-publication version of an article of mine finally published as ''Secret Agents: Feminist Theories of Women's Film Authorship', Feminist Theory Vol. File Type : .PDF Category :Ebook Excerpt :Feminist Film Theory: A Reader edited by Sue Thornham. Yeah, sorry to burst your bubble, but I have read a lot of feminist film theory about horror films in general (Carol Clover and Barbara Creed in specific) and I mostly find their theories to be quite outdated. This panel looks at the several Haynes' films and their intertexts from a range of scholarly perspectives--star studies, fan culture, feminist theory, and new historicism. John David Rhodes British Film Institute.. In this way, an implied or imagined 'textual' author/director ( Caughie, 1981, following Booth, 1961), gradually began to be foregrounded, often unconsciously or inadvertently, on the basis of 'a textual indeterminacy which [took] shape in the reading [or critical] process' (Stoddart, 1995: 47). Christine Gledhill (British Film Institute, 1987) 299- 325; Issues in Feminist Film Criticism,. Primarily in terms of its interventions in the queer male archive, Julia re- positions the female characters to the center of her reading: their sexual interest in mediated queer male relationships and their public identifications with the bisexual glam idols ambivalently parallel the main character, Arthur. This article was not intended to be a thesis that delves into the world of misogynistic representations of from the perspective of a female, seeing is how these slasher flicks both revolve around and subject women. Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2 generated (especially in their traversal of the non-feminist blogosphere) was largely due to their feminist slant, I feel a little bit of “gendered film analysis” or “feminist media theory 101” is called for. I look forward to reading more of your work, Sonia! She is the author of a book-length study of the British.