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﻿FEMINIST FILM THEORY ANNEXE SMELIK Feminism is a social movement that has had an enormous impact on film theory and criticism. Cinema is taken by femi- nists to be a cultural practice representing myths about women and femininity, as well as about men and masculinity. Issues of representation and spectatorship are central to feminist film theory and criticism. Early feminist criticism was directed at stereotypes of women, mostly in Hollywood films (Haskell, 1973; Rosen, 1973). Such fixed and endlessly repeated images of women were considered to be objectionable distortions that would have a negative impact on the female spectator. Hence, the call for positive images of women in cinema. Soon, how- ever, the insight dawned that positive images were not enough to change underlying structures in film. Feminist critics tried to understand the all-pervasive power of patriarchal imagery with the help of structuralist theoretical frameworks such as semiotics and psychoanalysis. These theoretical discourses have proved very productive in analysing the ways in which sexual difference is encoded in classical narrative.