The desire to desire
Subtitle: the woman's film of the 1940s
By: Mary Ann Doane.
Series: Theories of representation and difference
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Indiana Univ Pr
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Motion pictures for women -- United States; Motion picture audiences -- United States; Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
Description: "The Desire to Desire traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified primarily by its lapses or failures, arguing that the women#x19;s film simultaneously asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze."--From the publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [199]-205.
Includes index.