Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This long awaited collection of essays will be required reading for anyone interested in feminism, film, and avant-garde practice.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction to Second Edition
• Introduction to First Edition
• Part I Iconoclasm
• The Spectacle is Vulnerable: Miss World 1970 Fears
• Fantasies and the Male Unconsciousor'
• You Don't Know What is Happening
• Do You Mr Jones?' Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
• Part II Melodrama
• Afterthoughts on 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' inspired
• In The Sun(1946)
• Notes on Sirk and Melodrama Fassbinder and Sirk Images of Women
• Images of Sexuality: Some Films
• Melodrama Inside and Outside the Home
• Part III On the Margins
• Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti
• Part IV Avant-Garde
• Film, Feminism and the Avant-Garde Dialogue with Spectatorship
• Barbara Kruger and Victor Burgin 'Magnificent Obsession'
• An Introduction to the Work of Five Photographers Impending Time
• Part V Boundaries
• Changes: Thoughts on Myth, Narrative and Historical Experience
• The Oedipus Myth: Beyond the Riddles of the Sphinx
• The Young Modern Woman of the 1920s and Feminist Film Theory