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Constance Penley: The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis



Constance Penley: The Future of an Illusion: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis
Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press; Minnesota Archive Editions (1989)
ISBN: 9780816617722
Pages: 232 / pdf / 10mb

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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.


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