[ecrea] New book: Deconstruction, Feminism, Film by Sarah Dillon

*NEW BOOK of possible interest to MECCSA List Members:*

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*Sarah Dillon, /Deconstruction, Feminism, Film/ (Edinburgh: Edinburgh 
University Press, 2018)*

The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex 
influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its 
kind, /Deconstruction, Feminism, Film/ explores the interconnections 
between these three fields through detailed filmic and philosophical 
close readings. Employing a dual feminist methodology of critique and 
generation, this book probes the feminist faultlines in Derrida’s 
thought and generates original feminist insight into key concerns of 
contemporary film studies, including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, 
narrative, adaptation, auto/biography and the still. In theory and in 
practice, /Deconstruction, Feminism, Film/ performs the possibilities of 
a new twenty-first century feminist spectatorship.

*Key Features*

  * Includes a detailed critique of Derrida’s thinking about gender,
    sexuality, film and the visual
  * An active work of film philosophy, performing its general
    philosophical work through singular close readings
  * Theorises and performs the possibilities of a deconstructive
    feminist film critical practice
  * Offers new feminist theories of key concerns of film studies
    including spectatorship, realism vs artifice, narrative, adaptation,
    auto/biography and the still
  * Places key deconstructive visual texts within their cinematic as
    well as philosophical contexts

*About the Author*

Sarah Dillon is a feminist film and literary critic and theorist in the 
Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She is author of /The 
Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory/ (2007), editor of /David 
Mitchell: Critical Essays/ (2011), and co-editor of /Maggie Gee: 
Critical Essays /(2015). She is the General Editor of the book series 
Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays, and broadcasts regularly 
on BBC Radio 3 and 4.

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