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Feminist Film Aesthetics: A Contextual Approach

1990; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 5; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1527-2001.1990.tb00422.x

1527-2001

Laurie Shrage,

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This paper considers some problems with text-centered psychoanalytic and semiotic approaches to film that have dominated feminist film criticism, and develops an alternative contextual approach. I claim that a contextual approach should explore the interaction of film texts with viewers' culturally formed sensibilities and should attempt to render visible the plurality of meaning in art. I argue that the latter approach will allow us to see the virtues of some classical Hollywood films that the former approach has overlooked, and I demonstrate this thesis with an analysis of the film Christopher Strong.,