TY - BOOK ID - 86076783 TI - Woman at the keyhole : feminism and women's cinema PY - 1990 SN - 0253055768 9780253055767 058500059X 9780585000596 0253337194 0253206065 9780253337191 9780253206060 PB - Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Women in motion pictures. KW - Feminism and motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures and feminism KW - Motion pictures KW - Film history, theory & criticism KW - Cinema KW - Femmes au cinema. KW - Cinema feministe. KW - Feminisme et cinema. KW - Feminist films. KW - Philosophie. KW - Philosophy. KW - Feminisme et le cinema KW - Femmes dans les films KW - Femmes et le cinema UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86076783 AB - The title of this book takes as its point of reference those early, primitive films in which mostly men, but occasionally women, peek through keyholes, offering bold demonstrations of the voyeuristic pleasure that has been central to virtually every contemporary theory of cinema. When we imagine a "woman" and a "keyhole," it is usually a woman on the other side of the keyhole, as the proverbial object of the look, that comes to mind. In this work the author is not necessarily reversing the conventional image, but rather asking what happens when women are situated on both sides of the keyhole. The question is not only who or what is on either side of the keyhole, but also what lies between them, what constitutes the threshold that makes representation possible. 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. Films discussed include Helke Sander's Redupers, Julie Dash's Illusions, Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Yvonne Rainer's The Man Who Envied Women, Chantal Akerman's Je tu il elle, Ulrike Ottinger's Ticket of No Return, Anne Severson's Near the Big Chakra, Suzan Pitt's Asparagus, Germaine Dulac's The Smiling Madame Beudet, Agnes Varda's Cleo from 5 to 7, Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Trin T. Minh-ha's Reassem-blage, Laleen Jayamanne's A Song of Ceylon, and the films of Dorothy Arzner. ER -