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Claire Johnston (1940-1987) was a Feminist Film Theoretician . She wrote seminal essays on the construction of Ideology in mainstream cinema (Hollywood and European Auteur Cinema ).

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"Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema" (1975) in: Claire Johnston (ed.), ''Notes on Women's Cinema'', London: Society for Education in Film and Television, reprinted in: Sue Thornham (ed.), ''Feminist Film Theory. A Reader'', Edinburgh University Press 1999, pp. 31-40

"Feminist Politics and Film History", ''Screen'' 16, 3, pp. 115-125

(Editor), ''The work of Dorothy Arzner : towards a feminist cinema'', London : British Film Institute, 1975

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Feminist Film Theory