"Brilliantly argued and lucidly written... the definitive psychoanalytic account of the repression of woman in Hollywood cinema." --Tania Modleski..". complex and challenging... " --The Women"s Review of Books..". magnificently ambitious... some of the most original and intelligent essays in film th[...]
Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the 19th century as an unprecedented means of capturing time - and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were tra[...]