E. Ann Kaplan

Looking for the Other

Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

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Produktbeschreibung

What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel. Looking relations are determined by history, tradition, myth; by national identity, power hierarchies, politics, economics, geographical and other environment. Travel implicitly involves looking at, and looking relations with, peoples different from oneself. Featured films include Birth of a Nation, The Cat People, Home of the Brave, Black Narcissus, Chocolat, and Warrior Marks. Featured filmmakers include D.W.Griffith, Jacques Tourneur, Michael Powell, Julie Dash, Pratibha Parmar, Trinh T. Min-ha, and Claire Denis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780415910170
• ISBN-10: 041591017X
• Artikelnr.: 21721646

Autorenporträt

E. Ann Kaplan

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Backgrounds: Theories of Nation, Psychoanalysis and the Imperial Gaze
Chapter 1 Travel, Travelling Identities and the Look
Chapter 2 Theories of Nation and Hollywood in the Contexts of Gender and Race
Chapter 3 Hollywood, Science and Cinema: The Imperial and the Male Gaze in Classic Film
Chapter 4 Darkness Within: Or, The Dark Continent of Film Noir
Part 2 Travelling Postcolonialists and Women of Color
Chapter 5 Travelling White Theorists: The Case of China
Chapter 6 "
Can One Know the Other?": The Ambivalence of Postcoloniallsm in Chocolat, Warrior Marksand Mississippi Masala
Chapter 7 "
Speaking Nearby": Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblageand Shoot for the Contents
Chapter 8 "
Healing Imperialized Eyes": Independent Women Filmmakers and the Look
Chapter 9 Body Politics: Menopause, Mastectomy and Cosmetic Surgery in Films by Rainer, Tom and Onwurah