Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction to Kristeva
- A first general concept: Order and disturbances of order
- A second pervasive concern: The text of society and history
- Proximal history
Chapter 2. Horror - Basic concepts: The abject and its varieties
- Introducing Kitchen Sink
- The abject, borders, and images of pollution
- Varieties of the abject
Chapter 3. Horror - Specifiying the circumstances
- The nature of rituals of defilement
- The function of rituals of defilement
- Questions about rituals
- The knowledge that rituals imply
- Differences among spectators
Chapter 4. Strangers - Basic concepts: Strangers without and within
- Aspects of continuity and change
- Introducing two films: Vigil and Crush
- Who is the stranger?
- What marks the stranger?
- What creates the tension?
- What is the narrative function of the stranger?
- When are tensions and changes most likely to occur?
Chapter 5. Strangers – Expansions: The stranger’s story
- Introducing An Angel At My Table
- The stranger's position
- The stranger's feelings
- The stranger's options
- Angel’s impact upon the spectator
Chapter 6. Love - Basic concepts
- Aspects of continuity and change
- Sweetie, Piano: An introduction
- What are the forms of love?
- The difficulties of love
- Links to change: Steps towards love
- Times of difficulty and change
Chapter 7. Love - Expansions: Old and new discourses
- Aspects of continuity and change
- Current discourses and their weaknesses
- The shape of new tales of love
- The special case of motherhood and material love
Chapter 8. The text of society and history
- The paths for Vigil and Kitchen Sink
- A rockier path: Crush
- Campion’s first feature: Sweetie
- Campion’s second feature: Angel
- Campion’s third feature: The Piano
- Cross-cutting themes
Chapter 9. Some conceptual questions
- Kristeva's "generations" of feminist theory
- On ”men” and ”women”
- Women’s voice, women’s writing, women’s genius
- Some reservations
- A reminder of positives
End-notes
References
