Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze
by Kaplan,E. AnnEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 1997-03-06
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned?Looking for the Otherresponds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as illustrated by women filmmakers of color whose films deal with travel. Looking relations are determined by history, tradition, myth; by national identity, power hierarchies, politics, economics, geographical and other environment. Travel implicitly involves looking at, and looking relations with, peoples different from oneself.
Author Biography
E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English at Suny, Stony Brook.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Preface | |
| Backgrounds: Theories of Nation, Psychoanalysis and the Imperial Gaze | p. 1 |
| Travel, Travelling Identities and the Look | p. 3 |
| Theories of Nation and Hollywood in the Contexts of Gender and Race | p. 27 |
| Hollywood, Science and Cinema: The Imperial and the Male Gaze in Classic Film | p. 56 |
| Darkness Within: Or, The Dark Continent of Film Noir | p. 99 |
| Travelling Postcolonialists and Women of Color | p. 133 |
| Travelling White Theorists: The Case of China | p. 135 |
| "Can One Know the Other?": The Ambivalence of Postcolonialism in Chocolat, Warrior Marks and Mississippi Masala | p. 154 |
| "Speaking Nearby": Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage and Shoot for the Contents | p. 195 |
| "Healing Imperialized Eyes": Independent Women Filmmakers and the Look | p. 218 |
| Body Politics: Menopause, Mastectomy and Cosmetic Surgery Films by Rainer, Tom and Onwurah | p. 256 |
| Afterword: Reversing the Gaze, Yes: But Is Racial Inter-Subjective Looking Possible? | p. 292 |
| References | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 323 |
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