Feminist theory has become a central strand of cultural studies. This book explores the history of feminist cultural studies from the early work of Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vir
Sue Thornham is Professor of Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Passionate Detachments traces the key developments and debates in feminist film theory over the past twenty-five ye
Sue Thornham explores issues of space, place, time and gender in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by contemporary women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to m
"What happens when women tell their own stories in film? In What If I Had Been the Hero?, Sue Thornham addresses this question through an exploration of a wide range of films, from experimental femini
For the past twenty-five years, cinema has been a vital terrain on which feminist debates about culture, representation, and identity have been fought. This anthology charts the history of those debat
This book offers both a clear account of theoretical approaches to television drama and readings of a range of television drama texts. Arguing that TV drama is a key site for exploring the usefulnes
Part of the "Media Topics" series, which examines the core subject areas within Media Studies. This book presents a study of the key areas of issue and debate in feminist media studies. It includes re
Since at least the early 1970s, when Claire Johnston observed that despite ‘the enormous emphasis placed on woman as spectacle in the cinema … woman as woman is largely absent’, the relationship of ci
Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued and understood. The Reader includes essential statements from w
Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analyzed, critiqued, and understood. Media Studies: A Reader includes essential ess
