Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers

Focusing on the ground-breaking work of Laura Mulvey, Kaja Silverman, Teresa de Lauretis, and Barbara Creed, Feminist Film Theorists explores how, since it began in the 1970s, feminist film theory has revolutionised the way that films and their spectators can be understood. Examining the new and distinctive approaches of each of these thinkers, this book provides the most detailed account...

Widely recognised as one of today's most important cultural critics, Fredric Jameson's work targets subjects from architecture to science fiction, to cinema and global capitalism. Of this works, The Political Unconscious remains one of the most widely cited Marxist literary-theoretical texts, and a later article, 'Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism', is amongst the most influential statements on...

This volume introduces the world of Friedrich Nietzsche to students of literary and cultural studies, offering a lucid account of Nietzsche's thought on: anti-humanism, good and evil, the Overman, nihilism, and the Will to Power. Friedrich Nietzsche by Lee Spinks prepares readers for their first encounter with Nietzsche's most influential texts, enabling them to begin to apply his thought in...

Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on creation, the future and the enhancement of life, along with his crusade against 'common sense', Deleuze offers some of the...