num_pages: 207
description: The Future of an Illusion  was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The Future of an Illusion  documents the pivotal role Constance Penley has played in the development of feminist film theory. Penley analyzes the primary movements that have shaped the field: the conjunction of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis, and the inherent debates surrounding the politics of women and representation. These debates center on the position of women in the classical Hollywood narrative, the construction of the spectator's desire in pornography and eroticism, and the implicitly male bias in psychoanalytically oriented film theory. Essential to anyone studying the sexual policies of representation, The Future of an Illusion  ranges from avant-garde films to video, popular cinema, television, literature, and critical and cultural theory.Constance Penley is associate professor of English and film studies at the University of Rochester. A co-editor of the journal Camera Obscura,she is the editor of Feminism and Film Theory.
title: The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis
titlecomplete: The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis (Media and Society)
genres: Feminism, Film
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr