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The 36 pages that link to Feminist film theory, each with the reason it gives.

• Auteur theoryRelated: Feminist critics question whose authorship auteur traditions recognize and whose work they omit.

• MelodramaRelated: Feminist critics have used melodrama to analyze domestic labor, gender roles, and women’s constrained choices.

• Film criticismRelated: It offers tools for examining whose desires, labor, and viewpoints a film centers.

• Agnès VardaRelated: Varda’s women-centered films offer examples that complicate male-centered accounts of cinematic vision.

• Laura MulveyRelated: Mulvey’s intervention helped establish spectatorship and cinematic form as feminist questions.

• EroticismRelated: It examines whether erotic images reproduce or resist unequal ways of looking.

• Slasher filmRelated: Its analyses examine how slashers portray threatened women, survival, and looking.

• Blue VelvetRelated: The film’s depiction of Dorothy’s suffering has prompted sharply divided feminist readings.

• Jacques LacanRelated: Lacanian accounts of the gaze became influential targets and tools in debates about gender and cinema.

• Dorothy ArznerRelated: Feminist critics have examined how Arzner’s films stage women’s agency and viewers’ looking.

• Erotic filmRelated: It analyzes whether erotic imagery grants characters agency or reduces them to objects of display.

• Chantal AkermanRelated: Akerman’s attention to domestic labor and women’s everyday lives became central to feminist film discussion.

• Jane CampionRelated: It offers tools for examining how Campion centers women’s experience and agency.

• Damsel in distressRelated: It examines how visual storytelling can position women as objects of rescue rather than agents.

• John BergerRelated: Berger’s analysis of gendered looking became a point of reference for later visual criticism.

• Mildred PierceRelated: Mildred’s labor, motherhood, and ambition invite analysis of women’s roles in classic Hollywood.

• Women film directorsRelated: Women directors’ films became central evidence in debates about cinematic gender and authorship.

• Claudia CardinaleRelated: Her characters invite analysis of female agency within films shaped by male directors.

• Roger VadimRelated: Vadim’s portrayals of female desire raise questions about agency, objectification, and the camera’s gaze.

• Céline SciammaRelated: Her work invites analysis of who looks, who is seen, and whose desires shape a story.

• Jack HalberstamRelated: Halberstam’s visual analyses engage questions also central to feminist film theory.

• Catherine BreillatRelated: Its debates offer tools for interpreting the contested politics of Breillat’s sexual imagery.

• Jeanne DielmanRelated: The film’s attention to unpaid labor and female subjectivity invites feminist analysis.