Alice does n't

Teresa De Laurentis

Alice doesn’t: Feminism, Semiotics, Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press)

"A work of critical intelligence that redefines an entire area of contemporary cultural studies, Alice Doesn’t will not please semioticians, feminists, or cinema specialists, but it will force them, and all of us, to think"
- Wlad Gozwich

"Teresa De Laurentis presents us with an unmitigated look at the way our culture is shaped by film. De laurentis challenges the reader with an in-depth analysis of how film can both promote a masculinist/chauvanist hierarchy and at the same time present a subversive alternative perspective. The semiotic approach followed in this text presents us with a critical read on cinema that finds a femenist interpretation of imaging and desire in cinema. De laurentis has worked very hard to demistify cinema, an unapproachable, opaque medium into something far more palatable and transparent: a critical theory text. Kudos!"
- Daniel Hanson, professor of Evil Studies, New School For Social Research.