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Demonstrates the evolution of the author's political consciousness as well as her creative engagement with the contemporary film and cultural scene. These texts challenge the illusionist and ideological presumptions of mainstream culture and cinema.

" -Voice Literary SupplementHeath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.

Attempts to do for the sound-track what feminist film theory has done for the image-track - to locate the points at which it is productive of sexual difference. This work focuses on the female voice understood not merely as spoken dialogue, narration, and commentary, but as a fantasmatic projection, and as a metaphor for authorship.

Develops new historical methods to discover the Chicana's own story.

Examines "masked" lesbian representation in Hollywood cinema

In all of the films discussed, the threshold between subject and object, between inside and outside, between virtually all opposing pairs, is a central figure for the reinvention of cinematic narrative.