Feminine Cinematics

CAROLINE BAINBRIDGE is Reader in Visual Culture at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (2007) and co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious (2007). She has also published articles in journals such as Screen, Paragraph and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Reading the Feminine with Irigaray Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation Practising the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin Screening Parler femme : Silences of the Palace, Antonia's Line and Faithless Orlando and the Maze of Gender Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries Filmography Bibliography Index

Highly Commended in Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize, 2009'This is a scholarly and important book in feminist film theory and women's cinema. It is eloquent and well written and successfully introduces the ideas of Luce Irigaray to the non-specialist reader. It should be on the reading list for all film studies courses.' - Judges' comments, FWSA Book Prize