"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.

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