Situating the feminist gaze and spectatorship in postwar cinema (Cambridge Scholars, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
'Life finds a way': monstrous maternities and the quantum gaze in Jurassic Park and The thirteenth warrior / Lisa DeTora -- Shifting gender(ed) desire in Anne Fontaine's Nathalie -- / Rachel Ritterbusch -- Eyes wide shut: kino-eye wide open / M. Hunter Vaughan -- Hitchcock's 'good-looking blondes': first glimpses and second glances / Ian Scott Todd -- Family resemblances: (en)gendering Claire Denis, Nicole Garcia, and Agnès Jaoui's film titles / Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly -- Return of the female gothic: the career-woman-in-peril thriller / Monica Soare -- Mille genres: woman and women, horror film and horror films / Chuck Robinson -- A feminist theorization of Sofia Coppola's postfeminist trilogy / Amy Woodworth -- Laisse tomber les filles: (post)-feminism in Quentin Tarantino's Death proof / Jeremi Szaniawski -- Duras ravaged, ravished -- ravishing / Georgiana M.M. Colvile -- Varda: The gleaner and the just / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- 'No woman would die lilke that': Stage beauty as corrective-counterpoint to Othello / Elizabeth Gruber -- Dis-abling the sadistic gaze and deaf prostitutes in Aleksei Balabanov's Of freaks and men and Valerii Todorovskii's Land of the deaf / Izabela Kalinowska -- Chantal Akerman's cinematic transgressions: transhistorical and transcultural transpositions, translingualism, and the transgendering of the cinematic gaze / Sharon Lubkemann Allen