ABSTRACT

A major work of feminist film criticism examining questions of sexual difference, the female body and the female spectator through a discussion of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda.

part II|2 pages

Femmes Fatales

chapter 5|20 pages

Gilda: Epistemology as Striptease

chapter 7|21 pages

The Erotic Barter: Pandora's Box

part III|2 pages

The Body of the Avant-Garde

part IV|2 pages

At The Edges of Psychoanalysis