Author Mary Ann Doane

Mary Ann Doane

Mary Ann Doane is George Hazard Crooker Professor of Modern Culture and Media and of English at Brown University. She is the author of The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Indiana University Press, 1987), Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 1991), and The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2002). In addition, she has published a wide range of articles on feminist film theory, sound in the cinema, psychoanalytic theory, television, and sexual and racial difference in film.

A Brief Overview of The Work of Leslie Thornton

Mary Ann Doane

October 2002

Leslie Thornton: Experimental

Discussing certain Thornton films, Doane praises highly their richness and groundbreaking aesthetic.

The Retreat of Signs and the Failure of Words: Leslie Thornton’s Adynata

Mary Ann Doane

October 2002

Leslie Thornton: Experimental

Doane unravels the sensuality, intelligence and beauty of Adynata.