Feminist Film Studies Writing the Woman into Cinema

Feminist Film Studies provides an introduction to feminist film theory as a discourse from the early seventies to the present. Janet McCabe traces the broad ranging theories produced by feminist film scholarship, from formalist readings and psychoanalytical approaches to debates initiated by cultural studies, race, and queer theory. This book thus documents a dynamic critical field, charting the numerous feminist interventions to critically think about how the social, political, and cultural contexts informed debates and shaped the writing of a feminist film theory.