pt. I. Introduction. 1. Passionate Detachment -- pt. II. Dominant Cinema. 2. The Pleasure Machine. 3. Textual Gratification -- pt. III. Rereading Dominant Cinema: Feminism and Film Theory. 4. Making Visible the Invisible. 5. Trouble in the Text. 6. The Body in the Machine -- pt. IV. Replacing Dominant Cinema: Feminism and Film Practice. 7. Real Women. 8. Textual Politics. 9. The Production of Meaning and the Meaning of Production -- pt. V. Postscript. 10. Bent on Deconstruction. 11. Three Case Studies. 12. The Wild Zone -- Appendix: Film Details.