| Author/Contributor(s): | Doane, Mary Anne |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Date: | 06/22/1987 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
. . . complex and challenging . . . --The Womens Review of Books
. . . magnificently ambitious . . . some of the most original and intelligent essays in film theory today. --Journal of Modern Literature
. . . deeply commited to the psychoanalytic approach . . . --Contemporary Sociology
The Desire to Desire traces the way in which female spectatorship is specified primarily by its lapses or failures, arguing that the women's film simultaneously asserts and denies female desire, attributing to the woman only an impossible gaze.