"This is one of the most important studies of Eisenstein to have appeared in any language. Acclaimed as the 'greatest filmmaker of all time,' Eisenstein is a figure of mythic dimension. The recent discovery and publication (in Russian) of thousands of pages of his theoretical writings have led to the realization that he was also one of the prolific and most consistent theoreticians of cinema. Jacques Aumont, a leading French film scholar ..."
"With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buck Angel, Lynn Comella, Jane Ward, Ariane Cruz, Kevin Heffernan, and more, The Feminist Porn Book updates the arguments of the porn wars of the ..."
"This is argued both on a crude level—if it's good for them [the cigarette company,
advertisers), then it must be bad for ... of the simple control or manipulation of
these forms by such interests. in a similar way, film is also a site of the production
of ..."
"Visual. Pleasure. and. Narrative. Cinema. Laura. Mulvey. I Introduction A. A
Political Use of Psychoanalysis This paper intends to use psychoanalysis to
discover where and how the fascination of film is reinforced by pre-existing
patterns of fascination already at work within the individual subject and the social
formations that have moulded him. It takes as starting point the way film reflects,
reveals and even plays on the straig ..."
"In her pioneering book "Hard Core, " Linda Williams put moving-image pornography on the map of contemporary scholarship with her analysis of the most popular and enduring of all film and video genres. Now, fifteen years later, she showcases the next generation of critical thinking about pornography and signals new directions for study and teaching. "Porn Studies" resists the tendency to situate pornography as the outer limit of what can ..."
"Despite his premature death in 1992, Jim Pomeroy remains a luminary in the world of contemporary artists. Pomeroy's work, which integrates a wide range of styles and media, includes performance, video, installation, sculpture, sound art, photography, and critical writing. Using a peculiar brand of humor, his work questions assumptions about political systems, technology, popular culture, and common knowledge through a bric-a-brac of mat ..."
"First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
NASA/TREK Popular Science and Sex in America by ConstancePenley Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 1997 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-617-8, ISBN: 0-86091-617-0
"Although these jokes offer some elements of a popular criticism of NASA's bad
judgment in choosing, for example, to send into space a nonprofessional with
limited scientific abilities, Mellencamp is right to detect here another popular
discourse, a story of women's inherent deficiencies, which become glaringly
visible — and risible— whenever she forgets her place. The situation was no
smoother for highly trained, professional femal ..."
Nasa/Trek Popular Science and Sex in America by ConstancePenley Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 1997 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-0-86091-405-1, ISBN: 0-86091-405-4
"Best-selling authors have also learned the efficacy of communicating their ideas
through Star Trek; their works range from the very useful The Physics of Star Trek
by Lawrence M. Krauss to the lame Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star
Trek: The Next Generation by Wess Roberts (author of Leadership Secrets
ofAttila the Hun) and Bill Ross. But less noted than the extent to which vignettes
of Star Trek pervade our everyday lives i ..."
"The Feminist Porn Book brings together for the first time writings by feminists in the adult industry and research by feminist porn scholars. This book investigates not only how feminists understand pornography, but also how feminists do pornthat is, direct, act in, produce, and consume one of the world's most lucrative and growing industries. With original contributions by Susie Bright, Candida Royalle, Betty Dodson, Nina Hartley, Buc ..."
Male Trouble by ConstancePenley Published 1993 by University Of Minnesota ISBN-13: 978-1-299-92037-8, ISBN: 1-299-92037-3
"26 By contrast, although Laidi is a cook, she is never shown cooking; instead she
strikes one as always bursting onto the scene of male play, bringing with her
some kind of disorder. When Laidi enters this first scene of a shared meal, she is
..."
"Perhaps because of its very popularity and cult status, science fiction in all its forms has long suffered from critical neglect.This is especially true of the science fiction film—a genre as old as cinema itself—which has rarely received the serious attention devoted to such genres as the western, the film noir and recently, under the aegis of feminist film theory, the so-called "woman's film." Alien Zone aims to bring science fic ..."
The Future of an Illusion Film, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis by ConstancePenley 207 Pages, Published 1989 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-0211-1, ISBN: 1-4529-0211-9
"The theoretical writings of Malcolm Le Grice and Peter Gidal are highly
complementary, one often citing the work of the other ... Fernand Leger, L'Art du
cinema, 1923 single brush-mark style of the Impressionists to the grain of the
photographic ..."