Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Film and Female Consciousnesslooks at a group of films which offer new and original representations of women's interiority and individuality: In the Cut(2003), Lost in Translation(2003), and Morvern Callar(2002). Lucy Bolton compares these films with those which offer more standard 鈥?albeit provocative and interesting 鈥?treatments of female subjectivity: Klute(1971), The Seven Year Itch(1955), and Marnie(1964). Considering each of the older, well-known films alongside the recent, experimental films illustrates how contemporary filmmaking techniques and critical practices can work together to create complex and provocative depictions of on-screen female consciousness. Drawing on the philosophy of Luce Irigaray in relation to women's cultivation of self-knowledge, this book examines each female character as she goes through a process of transition or transformation. This approach demonstrates how participating in the encounter between Luce Irigaray and cinema can yield greater understanding of both fields.