Representing the Woman

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: The Woman’s Image — A Woman’s Imaging

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   Pages 1-14

3. Feminist Arguments

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   Pages 15-35

4. Narrative Positions and the Placing of the Woman Protagonist in Coma

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   Pages 36-71

5. Identifying in the Cinema

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   Pages 72-122

6. Fantasia

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   Pages 123-165

7. The Partiality of the Drives and the Pleasures of the Look in Cinema’s Voyeurism

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   Pages 166-221

8. Female Sexuality, Feminine Identification and the Masquerade

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   Pages 222-260

9. Figuring the Fetish

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   Pages 261-281

10. The Fetish of Ideology

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    Pages 282-315

11. Back Matter

    Pages 316-397

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Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis examines the theory and politics of representation in narrative film. Questioning current accounts of cinema's pleasures for men and women, Elizabeth Cowie draws on the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan to propose a new understanding of the relation of identification, fantasy and the drives, and of voyeurism and fetishism to the pleasures of cinema and to the making of the feminine and masculine spectators of film.

• cinema
• female sex
• film
• psychoanalysis
• psychoanalytic theory
• women

• University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

  Elizabeth Cowie

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