CAROLINE BAINBRIDGE is Reader in Visual Culture at Roehampton University, UK. She is the author of The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice (2007) and co-editor of Culture and the Unconscious (2007). She has also published articles in journals such as Screen, Paragraph and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

Highly Commended in Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize, 2009 'This is a scholarly and important book in feminist film theory and women's cinema. It is eloquent and well written and successfully introduces the ideas of Luce Irigaray to the non-specialist reader. It should be on the reading list for all film studies courses.' - Judges' comments, FWSA Book Prize

• Acknowledgements Introduction Reading the Feminine with Irigaray Spectatorship, Cinematic Strategy and Mediation Practising the Feminine: Contexts of Production, Direction and Reception Fantasy and the Feminine: Female Perversions and Under the Skin Screening Parler femme : Silences of the Palace, Antonia's Line and Faithless Orlando and the Maze of Gender Riddles of the Feminine in The Piano Impossible Differences: Slippages and Auguries Filmography Bibliography Index