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Article: Feminist film theory: A reader. (Book reviews / comptes rendus).(includes review of 'Gendering the Nation')
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- Resources for Feminist Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Sue Thornham, ed.
New York: New York University Press, 1999; 361 pp.
Gendering the Nation
Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow and Janine Marchessault, eds.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999; 329 pp.
A decade ago, Teresa de Lauretis wrote that "'women's cinema' is not just a set of films or practices of cinema, but also a number of film-critical discourses and broadly cast networks of cinema-related practices that are directly connected with the history of feminism" (cited in Armatage et al., p. 274). Adopting de Lauretis' definition here, we can certainly say that the two books under review both trace the ...