Feminsms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures

• Editorial
• p. 9

• Preface
• p. 10

• Acknowledgments
• p. 15

• Introduction: 1970s Feminist Film Theory and the Obsolescent Object
• p. 17

• Part I
• New Perspectives: Images and the Female Body

• Disconnected Heroines, Icy Intelligence: Refraining Feminism(s) and Feminist Identities at the Borders Involving the Isolated Female TV Detective in Scandinavian-Noir
• p. 29

• Lena Dunham's GIRLS: Can-Do Girls, Feminist Killjoys, and Women Who Make Bad Choices
• p. 44

• Destroy Visual Pleasure: Cinema, Attention, and the Digital Female Body (Or, Angelina Jolie Is a Cyborg)
• p. 54

• The Intertextual Stardom of IRIS: Wins let, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer's Disease
• p. 65

• Part II
• Theory in Contemporary Contexts

• Imagining Safe Space in Feminist Pornography
• p. 79

• Uncommon Sensuality: New Queer Feminist Film/Theory
• p. 86

• The Promise of Touch: Turns to Affect in Feminist Film Theory
• p. 97

• Sound and Feminist Modernity in Black Women's Film Narratives
• p. 111

• Part III
• History and Practice

• The "New" Experimentalism? Women In/And/On Film
• p. 125

• Conditions of Activism: Feminist Film Activism and the Legacy of the Second Wave
• p. 141

• US Independent Women's Cinema, Sundance Girls, and Identity Politics
• p. 149

• Part IV
• Contextualizing History: New Frontiers in Feminist Journals

• Suddenly, One Summer: Frauen und Film since 1974
• p. 161

• (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura
• p. 169

• Part V
• Discussions: Dialoguing Difference and Extremity in Contemporary Cinemas

• Film, Corporeality, Transgressive Cinema: A Feminist Perspective
• p. 187

• Disconnection Notices: Interview with Miranda July
• p. 203

• Notes
• p. 209

• General Bibliography
• p. 239

• Notes on Contributors
• p. 259

• Index of Names
• p. 265

• Index of Film Titles
• p. 273