Claire Johnston (1940–1987) was a feminist film theoretician.^[1] 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" (1973) 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

• Feminist film theory