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Grant, Catherine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 2 no. 1 (Apr. 2001), page 113-130.
Topik: Feminist theories of women’s film authorship
Fulltext: 113.pdf (79.22KB)

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Unlike many other words referring to the activities of particular kinds of cultural producers (‘writer’, ‘painter’, ‘dramatist’), the term ‘author’ raises intrinsic questions about authority and about whether the individual is the source or the effect of that authority.1 Despite the deconstruction of traditional understandings of the ‘author-as-subject’, the ‘author-as-source-ofmeaning’ and of individualist ideologies in general, especially during the latter part of the 20th century (Barthes, 1968; Foucault, 1969), these kinds of questions concerning authorial authority, as well as the institution of authorship, have remained fairly central ones for feminists in theorizing and teaching about women’s activities in the field of cultural production, because of their connections with broader feminist debates about different kinds of subjectivity and agency under patriarchy (Miller, 1986; Watts, 1992). In this article, I will present an overview of feminist theoretical debate, from the early 1970s to the present, on the subject of women’s film authorship.

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