Books by Mary Ann Doane

Intended for students and lecturers in women's studies, communications studies and film theory, this work on feminist film criticism examines questions of sexual difference, the female body, the female spectator and looks at such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda.

In a work that captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity.