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Feminine Film Signs: Women as Metalanguage, 1975, Year I, n. 1, pp. 91-109
In both film and women in western culture there exists a fundamental contradiction: both are respectively "values" and "signs" of these "values". Film is a "value" with respect to the contents which it transmits; it is a "sign" with regards to the "codes of communication" which it uses. More over, the same use of codes is a "value" anthropologically speaking.
Women in a patriarchal society such as ours even while having own "values" are often "signs" of masculine values. In film this "semiotic exploitation" of women is brought to an extreme thanks to the metalinguistic artefact. Film metalanguage uses the "woman sign" to give it new meanings which superimpose the usual ones. Even when women seem to express their own values, they really are transmitting male contents. It is necessary for women to liberate themselves from metalanguage.
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KRISTEVA Julia, Donne cinesi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1975
rew. by Nicola Gasbarro, Y. I, 1975, n. 2, pp. 209-210
IRIGARAY Luce, Speculum. L'altra donna, Milano, Feltrinelli, 1975
rew. by Nicola Gasbarro, Y. I, 1975, n. 2, pp. 212-214