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Demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, and more on the subject of the body, this title concludes that the body they theorize is male.

Examines "masked" lesbian representation in Hollywood cinema

Demonstrates the evolution of the author's political consciousness as well as her creative engagement with the contemporary film and cultural scene. These texts challenge the illusionist and ideological presumptions of mainstream culture and cinema.

An original critical reading of FreudOs most famous case historyNthe oWolf ManO.

In all of the films discussed, the threshold between subject and object, between inside and outside, between virtually all opposing pairs, is a central figure for the reinvention of cinematic narrative.

" -Voice Literary SupplementHeath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.

By naming the Djuna Barnes Tradition, as opposed to the Radclyffe Hall Tradition, the author identifies the power of a certain lesbian romance line in Modern and Postmodern literature and culture - tracing its progress from Bertha Harris to Jeanette Winterson and Rebecca Brown.

" -Contemporary SociologyThe Desire to Desire traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified primarily by its lapses or failures, arguing that the women's film simultaneously asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze.

Develops new historical methods to discover the Chicana's own story.

Attempts to do for the sound-track what feminist film theory has done for the image-track - to locate the points at which it is productive of sexual difference. This work focuses on the female voice understood not merely as spoken dialogue, narration, and commentary, but as a fantasmatic projection, and as a metaphor for authorship.