The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of The 1940s

"Brilliantly argued and lucidly written... the definitive psychoanalytic account of the repression of woman in Hollywood cinema." Tania Modleski..". complex and challenging... " The Women"s 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 SociologyThe 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."