You could try the evolutionary role of woman, which is quite specific in humans. Maybe it is most palatable in the form of Darwinian literary theory, or maybe not.

Dear Donald, thank you for your thought. I'm not sure Darwin could actually explain nowadays films more than Freud does. Looking for something fresh... ;)

I do aesthetic based feminist film theory - please have a look at my essay about scandinavien detective characters in TV Shows in that bilangual book: http://www.fink.de/katalog/search.html?tx_mbooks%5BsAdvanced%5D=1&tx_mbooks%5BsAuthor%5D=Christoph%20Dreher%20%28Hg.%29&cHash=d1e7ecde0ae945a6f617f8b6e2779aab

What I would say is you don't have to study film through the lens of 'film theory' - you might want to look at a paper I think I am attaching below. 

Article Method or Madness? Textual analysis in media studies

I agree with Leo (without reading his paper that I'm not sure is attached). Close reading of aesthetics and film techniques should reveal subtexts that subvert patriarchal power relationships without the need to refer to abstract theory. Take a look at the films you are studying, find the subversive, feminist subtext, then if you must have theory, find one that explains what you find in the films.

Thank you for your kind answers!

Try Teresa De Lauretis. She focuses on Derrida's works rather than psychoanalysis. Alice doesn't is a great departure point. 

Derrida as a basis for analysis. That way lies madness. 

Well, unless you don't value coherence, logic or reasoned analysis.

A theory isn't a theory just because you call it that in French.

to link Derrida with feminist film analysis seems to be a paradox to me ;-)

if youa re able to speak french and to ask arte (European Culture Chanel) for a copy, they produced a feature by Marie Mandy I can recommend to you. This is a good starting point for a lecutre or seminar or research in that field, from my pov. For my students this works as an eye-opener - also for thinking about film and for a  analysis from a female point of view

FILMER LE DESIR, LE DESIR DE FILMER, VOYAGE A TRAVERS LE CINEMA DE FEMMES

Produktionsland: Belgien/Frankreich

Produktionsjahr: 2000

Produktionsfirma: The FACTORY/ARTE France

Länge: 60 Minuten

Erstauffuehrung: 16.1.2004 arte

Regie: Marie Mandy

Drehbuch: Marie Mandy

by the way - I uploaded my essay I mentioned earlier as one example, whithin I tried to make a feminist film analyses of TV series produced in Scandinavia (as positive examples due to representing gender)

Hello Mahella, I am using semiotics as way to explore a feminist response to the female nude. Social semiotics would be equally applicable to film analysis, and offers a way to explore and reveal social constructions of meaning. (The following paper references Derrida too!) Riley, H and Roberts A.  The Gendered Image. Deconstructing the Life Drawing Room in The International Journal of the Image, Volume 4, Issue 1, April 2014, pp.77-86. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Published online: April 10, 2014 http://amandaroberts.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.202/prod.188 Best wishes, Amanda

Dear Mahelia

here is the information :

http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/femfilm.html

El área de la teoría feminista del cine ha sido ampliamente estudiada en los Estados Unidos y en Reino Unido. No existe una sola teoría feminista del cine (Khun, 1982), sino diversas perspectivas. Hayward (2013), en su extenso ensayo sobre la cuestión, distingue 3 períodos: a) la teoría feminista de 1968 - 74: El debate mujer y clase en la sociedad cede lugar al de género en el cual se examina la cuestión de la identidad y representación de la mujer en las imágenes del filme, principalmente a través del cine de Hollywood. b) El segundo período, de 1975-83, caracterizado a partir de un texto fundacional difundido en el Festival de cine de Edimburgo con el título de Women's Cinema as Counter-Cinema.