10. ‘Afterthoughts on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” inspired by King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun (1946)’

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: Taking up the Struggle
5. Introduction 9
6. 1.‘The Image of Women in Film: Some Suggestions for Future Research’ 14
7. 2. ‘The Woman’s Film’ 20
8. 3. ‘Women’s Cinema as Counter-Cinema’ 31
9. 4. ‘The Crisis of Naming in Feminist Film Criticism’ 41
10. Further Reading 48
11. Part II: The Language of Theory
12. Introduction 53
13. 5. ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ 58
14. 6. ‘Caught and Rebecca: The Inscription of Femininity as Absence’ 70
15. 7. ‘Oedipus Interruptus’ 83
16. 8. ‘Lost Objects and Mistaken Subjects’ 97
17. Further Reading 106
18. Part III: The Female Spectator
19. Introduction 111
20. 9. ‘Women and Film: A Discussion of Feminist Aesthetics’ 115
21. 10. ‘Afterthoughts on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” inspired by King Vidor’s Duel in the Sun (1946)’ 122
22. 11. ‘Film and the Masquerade: Theorising the Female Spectator’ 131
23. 12. ‘Women’s Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera and Theory’ 146
24. Further Reading 157
25. Part IV: Textual Negotiations
26. Introduction 161
27. 13. ‘Pleasurable Negotiations’ 166
28. 14. ‘Video Replay: Families, Films and Fantasy’ 180
29. 15. ‘Feminine Fascinations: Forms of Identification in Star-Audience Relations’ 196
30. 16. ‘Taboos and Totems: Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs' 210
31. Further Reading 224
32. Part V: Fantasy, Horror and the Body
33. Introduction 229
34. 17. ‘Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film’ 234
35. 18. ‘Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection’ 251
36. 19. ‘Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess’ 267
37. Further Reading 282
38. Part VI: Re-thinking Differences
39. Introduction 287
40. 20. ‘White Privilege and Looking Relations: Race and Gender in Feminist Film Theory’ 293
41. 21. ‘The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators’ 307
42. 22. ‘Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film’ 321
43. 23. ‘Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion’ 336
44. Further Reading 350
45. Copyright Acknowledgements 353
46. Index 355