Shrage, Laurie: Feminist Film Aesthetics

Abstract: “This essay 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 iflm 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.” (Shrage 1993: 139)

Shrage, Laurie: Feminist Film Aesthetic: A contextual approach, In: Hein, Hilde & Korsmeyer, Carolyn ( Ed.): Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective, PP.139 - 149
1993 USA: Indiana University Press

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