Title: Fetishism and curiosity : cinema and the mind's eye /
Authors: Mulvey, Laura.; British Film Institute
Publisher: BFI,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Feminist film criticism; Feminism and motion pictures.; Women in motion pictures
Abstract: With cinema as her main consideration, Mulvey investigates the Hollywood cinema produced by the studio system. She is widely regarded as one of the most challenging and incisive contemporary feminist cultural theorists.
Contents: Americanitis: European Intellectuals and Hollywood Melodrama -- Social Hieroglyphics: Reflections on Two Films by Douglas Sirk -- Close-ups and Commodities -- Pandora's Box: Topographies of Curiosity -- Cosmetics and Abjection: Cindy Sherman 1977-87 -- The Hole and the Zero: Godard's Visions of Femininity -- From Log Cabin to Xanadu: Psychoanalysis and History in Citizen Kane -- The Carapace that Failed: Ousmane Sembene's Xala -- Netherworlds and the Unconscious: Oedipus and Blue Velvet -- Postscript: Changing Objects, Preserving Time.