Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction / Ada Testaferri 1. Modes of Identification and Representation Pandora: Topographies of the Mask and Curiosity / Laura Mulvey Locating the Displaced View / Midi Onodera Women in the Shadows: Reclaiming a Metis Heritage / Christine Welsh OWho is Speaking/O: Of Nation, Community and First Person Interviews / Trinh T. Minh-ha 2. The Role of Fantasy in Lesbian Representation and Spectatorship On the Subject of Fantasy / Teresa de Lauretis Governing Lesbian Desire: NocturneOs Oedipal Fantasy / Patricia White Female Misbehavior: On the Structure of Paradoxical Obedience in the Sadomasochistic Mise-en-scene / Monika Treut 3. Inscribing Woman in Socio-Historical Contexts Neil Shipman: A Case of Heroic Feminity / Kay Armatage Streetwalking Around PlatoOs Cave / Giuliana Bruno An/other View of New Latin American Cinema / B. Ruby Rich 4. Feminist Film Readings: Personal Politics/Social Politics A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship / Judith Mayne Signifying the Holocaust: Liliana CavaniOs Portiere di notte / Margueritte Waller Contributors Index

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About the Author

LAURA PIETROPAOLO, Associate Lecturer at York University, teaches Italian language and literature. She is the author of articles on the cinema of Liliana Cavani and Ettore Scola. ADA TESTAFERRI is Associate Professor at York University, where she teaches Italian language and literature. She is editor of Donna: Women in Italian Culture.