Introduction

Chapter 1 – Thinking for a Feminist Philosophy of Cinema
Woolf, Virginia [1926] 2008, The Cinema, Virginia Woolf: Selected Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Iris Murdoch, 1956 'On the Cinema', British VOGUE, Conde Nast Publishers.
Cynthia Freeland, 1998 'Feminist Film Theory', in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. by Michael Kelly, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Michèle Le Dœuff, 1989 'Long Hair, Short Ideas',The Philosophical Imaginary, translated by Colin Gordon. London & New York: Continuum.
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Chapter 2 – Film Aesthetics
Katherine Thomson-Jones, 2008 'The Language of Film', Aesthetics and Film, Continuum Aesthetics, London and New York: Continuum.
Sylvie Magerstadt, 2015 'Brave New Worlds: Living Dinosaurs, CGI and a New Aesthetics', in Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions, London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.
Christine Battersby, 1989, 'The Male Gift', in Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics, London: The Women's Press Limited.
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Chapter 3 – Film Phenomenology and Bodies
Katharina Lindner,2018 'Trans, Lesbian or Queer? Passing, (mis)Recognition and (Dis)Appearance in Tomboy, Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality, London & New York: I.B.Tauris.
Elaine Scarry,1985 'Pain and Imagining', The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.
EL Putnam, 2018 'Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy', in Clara Fischer & Luna Dolezal (Eds.), New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment (pp. 203- 220). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mary Midgley, 2014 'The beasts that perish', in Are You an Illusion? Durham: Acumen Publishing Limited.
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Chapter 4 – Film Time and Space
Maya Deren, [1946] 2005 'Creating Movies with a New Dimension: Time', in Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film, ed. by Bruce R. McPherson, Kingston, N.Y.: Documentext.
Brydie Kosima, 2020, 'Feminist Temporalities: Memory Ghosts and the Collapse of Time', Continuum, 34:6, 901-913.
Kara Keeling, 2007, 'In the Interval', The Witch's Flight: the Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense, Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, pp. 27-44.
Alexia Panayiotou, 2014 'Spacing Gender, Gendering Space: A radical “strong plot” in film', Management Learning. 2015, 46(4), 427-443
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Chapter 5 – Film's Feminist Political Power
Audre Lorde, 1978, 'Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power', Sister Outsider, Penguin Random House UK.
bell hooks, [1986]2009, '“Whose pussy is this?” A Feminist Comment', in Reel to Real, New York & London: Routledge.
Tiffany Watt-Smith, 2014 'A Convalescent Recoils', in On Flinching, Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gail Weiss, 2011 'Sharing Time Across Unshared Horizons', in Christina Schües, Dorothea Olkowski & Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology. Indiana University Press. pp. 171
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Chapter 6 – Changing the Dominant Imaginary
bell hooks, 1996 'Doing it for Daddy: Black masculinity in the mainstream', in Reel to Real, New York & London: Routlege.
Sarah Arnold, 2013 'Motherhood and self-sacrifice in Japan', A Comparative Analysis of Motherhood in Recent Japanese and US Horror Films. In: Maternal Horror Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London
Mithuraaj Dhusiya, 2019 'Zombies and witches and the anxieties of culture', Indian Horror Cinema: (En)gendering the Monstrous , Routledge India
Alison Kafer, 2013 'Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions', Feminist, Queer, Crip, Indiana University Press
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 2009 'Breasts', in Staring: How We Look, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Patricia Hill Collins, 2000 'Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images', in Black Feminist Thought, New York & London: Routledge.
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Conclusion
Reflections, speculations, possibilities