Affirmative Aesthetics And Wilful Women

Author : Maud Ceuterick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030370398

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Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women by Maud Ceuterick Pdf

Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film theory remain limited by binary models. Looking instead to more fluid models of spatial relations inspired by Sara Ahmed, Rosi Braidotti, and Doreen Massey, this book discovers wilful, affirmative, and imaginative activations of gender on screen. Through close, micro-analysis of historic European Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979) and contemporary world cinema: Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book identifies affirmative aesthetics: light, texture, rhythm, movement and sound, all of which that participate in a rewriting of bodies and spaces. Ultimately, Ceuterick argues, affirmative aesthetics can challenge the gender categories and power structures that have been thought to determine our habitation of cars, homes, and city streets. Wilful women drive this book forward, through their movement and stillness, imagination and desire, performance and abjection.

Author : Susan Liddy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031183850

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Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries by Susan Liddy Pdf

This book explores the challenges facing women from their mid-forties as they attempt to build/maintain careers in the screen industries. Essays are concerned with the intersection of gender and age on screen and behind the camera and how that can create a ‘double jeopardy’. Existing research in this area has been primarily directed to onscreen representation. Female actors, with notable exceptions, struggle to get screen time and expansive roles as they age. Behind the camera, women 45+ also face challenges and roadblocks; to date, less attention has been directed to this group. The cross-cultural research in this collection offers an analysis of representation, on and off screen, touching on film, television, streaming services and film festivals. It includes an exploration of gendered ageism, age bias and stereotyping. It also highlights the achievements of mature female practitioners who, in their work and working lives, embody a resistance to restrictive cultural discourses about ageing women.

Author : Peggy Zeglin Brand,Carolyn Korsmeyer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271043968

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Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics by Peggy Zeglin Brand,Carolyn Korsmeyer Pdf

Author : Baschiera Stefano Baschiera
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474428958

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Film and Domestic Space by Baschiera Stefano Baschiera Pdf

Although film and media studies have widely engaged with the different aspects of social space, domestic space in film has rarely been studied in its multiple dimensions. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical disciplines - and with case studies of directors such as Chantal Akerman, Agnes Varda, Claire Denis, Todd Haynes, Amos Gitai, Martin Ritt, John Ford, Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine - this book goes beyond the representational approach to the analysis of domestic space in cinema, in order to look at it as a dispositif. Adopting this innovative two-fold approach that couples representation and dispositif, the home is studied as an architecture, as the place that embodies, defines and perpetuates the family history, as the milieu of gender and generational struggle, as well as the first site where manifestations of power unfold. All chapters contribute to explore, unpack the complexities and expand on the richness encapsulated in the notion of domesticity and dwelling in its fascinating relation to moving images.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822310902

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : Sarah Kember
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Artificial life
ISBN : 0415240271

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Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life by Sarah Kember Pdf

Examining the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture, this book aims to re-focus concern on the ethics rather than on the 'nature' of artificial life.

Author : Hilde Hein,Carolyn C. Korsmeyer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253114888

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Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective by Hilde Hein,Carolyn C. Korsmeyer Pdf

"A first-rate introduction to the field, accessible to scholars working from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Highly recommended... " -- Choice "... offers both broad theoretical considerations and applications to specific art forms, diverse methodological perspectives, and healthy debate among the contributors.... [an] outstanding volume."Â -- Philosophy and Literature "... this volume represents an eloquent and enlightened attempt to reconceptualize the field of aesthetic theory by encouraging its tendencies toward openness, self-reflexivity and plurality." -- Discourse & Society "All of the authors challenge the traditional notion of a pure and disinterested observer that does not allow for questions of race/ethnicity, class, sexual preference, or gender." -- Signs These essays examine the intellectual traditions of the philosophy of art and aesthetics. Containing essays by scholars and by the writer Marilyn French, the collection ranges from the history of aesthetic theory to a philosophical reflection on fashion. The contributions are unified by a sustained scrutiny of the nature of "feminist," "feminine," or "female" art, creativity, and interpretation.

Author : Neil Archer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780857457707

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The French Road Movie by Neil Archer Pdf

The traditionally American genre of the road movie has been explored and reconfigured in the French context since the later 1960s. Comparative in its approach, this book studies the inter-relationship between American and French culture and cinemas, and in the process considers and challenges histories of the road movie. It combines film history with film theory methodologies, analysing transformations in social, political and film-industrial contexts alongside changing perspectives on the meaning and possibilities of film. At once chronological and thematic in structure, The French Road Movie provides in each chapter a comprehensive introduction to key themes emerging from the genre in the French context - liberty, identity and citizenship, masculinity, femininity, border-crossing - followed by detailed, innovative and often revisionist readings of the chosen films. Through these readings the author justifies the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorates this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.

Author : Claire Bishop
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781683972

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Artificial Hells by Claire Bishop Pdf

Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawe? Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.

Author : Berys Gaut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199263219

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Art, Emotion and Ethics by Berys Gaut Pdf

Can a good work of art be evil? 'Art, Ethics, and Emotion' explores this issue, arguing that artworks are always aesthetically flawed insofar as they have a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the relation of art to morality.

Author : Camilla Griggers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816627177

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Becoming-woman by Camilla Griggers Pdf

Griggers analyses contemporary articulations of the feminine in American cultural practices ranging from fashion to foeticide, and from Hollywood''s production of fe minine charismatic military leaders to pop-mediated lesbiani sm. '

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241454879

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Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner Pdf

'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner' Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out, and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic, bohemian Minna, who leads her on a wild, chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution. 'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This is my favourite of her novels' Sarah Waters 'Every page contains something brilliant, arresting or amusing, and one comes away from it staggered' Claire Harman

Author : Gina Wisker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780333985243

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Post-Colonial and African American Women's Writing by Gina Wisker Pdf

This accessible and unusually wide-ranging book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonial and African American women's writing. It provides a valuable gender and culture inflected critical introduction to well established women writers: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Suniti Namjoshi, Bessie Head, and others from the U.S.A., India, Africa, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and introduces emergent writers from South East Asia, Cyprus and Oceania. Engaging with and clarifying contested critical areas of feminism and the postcolonial; exploring historical background and cultural context, economic, political, and psychoanalytic influences on gendered experience, it provides a cohesive discussion of key issues such as cultural and gendered identity, motherhood, mothertongue, language, relationships, women's economic constraints and sexual politics.

Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134557516

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A Shock to Thought by Brian Massumi Pdf

A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory. The volume also contains an interview with Guattari which clearly restates the 'aesthetic paradigm' that organizes both his and Deleuze's work.

Author : Steven Shaviro
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781846944314

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Post Cinematic Affect by Steven Shaviro Pdf

Post-Cinematic Affect is about what it feels like to live in the affluent West in the early 21st century. Specifically, it explores the structure of feeling that is emerging today in tandem with new digital technologies, together with economic globalization and the financialization of more and more human activities. The 20th century was the age of film and television; these dominant media shaped and reflected our cultural sensibilities. In the 21st century, new digital media help to shape and reflect new forms of sensibility. Movies (moving image and sound works) continue to be made, but they have adopted new formal strategies, they are viewed under massively changed conditions, and they address their spectators in different ways than was the case in the 20th century. The book traces these changes, focusing on four recent moving-image works: Nick Hooker's music video for Grace Jones' song Corporate Cannibal; Olivier Assayas' movie Boarding Gate, starring Asia Argento; Richard Kelly's movie Southland Tales, featuring Justin Timberlake, Dwayne Johnson, and other pop culture celebrities; and Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's Gamer.