Female Spectators: Looking at Film and Television (Questions for Feminism)
ISBN: 0860919226
ISBN-13: 9780860919223
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Female Spectators; Looking at Film and Television
Pribram, E. Deidre
London/New York: Verso, 1988. viii, 200 pp. B&W plates section. Essays by Linda Williams, Jeanne Allen, Michelle Citron, Christine Gledhill, Jacqueline Bobo, Jackie Byars, E. Ann Kaplan, Alile Sharon Larkin, Teresa de Lauretis. Very light foxing to page edges. Wraps with some edgewear, light creasing at corners and spine.. First Paperback. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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