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The Desire to Desire

The Woman's Film of the 1940s (book in English)

by Mary Ann Doane

Type
Studies
Subject
History of Cinema
Keywords
woman, history of cinema
Publishing Date
1987
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Collection
(no collection)
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Paperback • 224 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
0-253-20433-X
978-0-253-20433-2
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Book Presentation:
What is female spectatorship? When Hollywood films are geared for an audience of women, what ideals do they tend to promote? How should feminist theory contend with the image of women that the cinema passes on? In The Desire to Desire Mary Ann Doane responds to these questions, focusing specifically on "woman's pictures" of the 1940s. She argues that while most of the films she discusses are conceived through lenses that are masculine in nature, feminists attempting to critique these films should not dismiss them as sexist or attempt to develop a way of seeing that is simply the opposite of the one handed down. Instead, Doane offers a critique of vision itself, contrasting the way the camera views the women in these films, the way the films' female characters look out onto their worlds, and the way the Hollywood movie industry manufactures images that it expects female audiences to consume.

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