Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism

by Diane Carson

Book Overview

This volume offers readers a comprehensive survey of the varied contributions feminist scholars have been making to film study over the past two decades. In its scope, "Multiple Voices in Feminist... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816622736
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Multiple Voices helpful to those "in the know"

Multiple Voices is a great complilation of developmental feminist film theory. Interesting and diverse essays are included: Christine Gledhill (one of my personal favorites), B. Ruby Rich, bell hooks, Teresa de Lauretis, Linda Williams and more. The anthology is broken into three parts: "perspectives", which gives a brief histoical and general overview of American feminist film criticism; "practice", which is a series of essays that apply the theory to various films/film genres; and finally, "course files" which are course outline suggestions for teaching theory to students. This is a great book for someone well-versed in feminist theory. However, there are a few drawbacks to it which makes it a little less accessible to a novice. Namely, Laura Mulvey's theory is talked about in many of the essays, but her historic essay, "Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema," is not included. Also missing from this collection is a good representation of French feminist theory.