Film And Female Consciousness

Author : L. Bolton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230308695

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Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works with well-known and influential films that offer more familiar treatments of female subjectivity: Klute (1971), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Marnie (1964). Considering each of the older, celebrated films alongside the recent, unconventional works illustrates how contemporary filmmaking techniques and critical practices can work together to create provocative depictions of on-screen female consciousness. Bolton's approach demonstrates how the encounter between the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and cinema can yield a fuller understanding of the fundamental relationship between film and philosophy. Furthermore, the book explores the implications of this approach for filmmakers and spectators, and suggests Irigarayan models of authorship and spectatorship that reinvigorate the notion of women's cinema.

Author : L. Bolton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137501405

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Film and Female Consciousness by L. Bolton Pdf

Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works with well-known and influential films that offer more familiar treatments of female subjectivity: Klute (1971), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Marnie (1964). Considering each of the older, celebrated films alongside the recent, unconventional works illustrates how contemporary filmmaking techniques and critical practices can work together to create provocative depictions of on-screen female consciousness. Bolton's approach demonstrates how the encounter between the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and cinema can yield a fuller understanding of the fundamental relationship between film and philosophy. Furthermore, the book explores the implications of this approach for filmmakers and spectators, and suggests Irigarayan models of authorship and spectatorship that reinvigorate the notion of women's cinema.

Author : Andrea Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313391118

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Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950 by Andrea Walsh Pdf

Women's Film and Female Experience takes a fresh look at a wide range of popular women's films in order to discover what American female consciousness in the 1940s was really about. The author traces the evolution and development of the Hollywood women's film, and describes the social history of American women in the 1940s. She then analyzes dominant narrative patterns within popular women's films of the decade: the maternal drama, the career woman comedy, and the films of suspicion and distrust.

Author : Teresa de Lauretis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253017925

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Technologies of Gender by Teresa de Lauretis Pdf

"Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory. . . . In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition—and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment." —B. Ruby Rich " . . . sets philosophical ideas humming. . . . she has much to say." —Cineaste "I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor." —SubStance This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and women's cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.

Author : Patrice Petro
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813529964

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Aftershocks of the New by Patrice Petro Pdf

The beginning of this century has brought with it a host of assumptions about the newness of our technologies, globalized economies, and transnational media practices. Our own time is a period marked by experiences of fragmentation, sensation, and shock. The essays here are joined by a common concern to chart another side to modernity--precisely after the shock of the new--when the new ceases to be shocking, and when the extraordinary and the sensational become linked to the boring and the everyday. Patrice Petro explores how the mechanisms of modernism, German cinema, and feminist film theory have evolved, and she discusses the directions in which they are headed. Petro's essays--some published here for the first time--raise such questions as: What roles do television and other media play in film studies? What is the place of feminist film theory in our conceptions of film history? How is German film theory situated within international film theory? Rather than continue to sensationalize sensation, Aftershocks of the New aims to lower the volume of debates over the place of cinema within the culture of modernity. And it accomplishes this by locating them within a more complex matrix of contending sensibilities, voices, and impulses.

Author : Jan Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015011899237

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Women's Reflections by Jan Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Ning Xu
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783832554804

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Chinese-German Female-Themed Art Film Culture in the Context of Globalization by Ning Xu Pdf

In the context of globalization, this book explores female-themed art films from China and Germany, in order to seek and illustrate how the cultural difference between the ways of representing women and narrating women's themes is shown in the films of both countries.

Author : Ingeborg Bachmann
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228732

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Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann Pdf

Now a New Directions book, the legendary novel that is “equal to the best of Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett” (New York Times Book Review) In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between two men: viewed, through the tilting prism of obsession, she travels further into her own madness, anxiety, and genius. Malina explores love, "deathstyles," the roots of fascism, and passion.

Author : Virginia Apperson,John Beebe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443804165

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The Presence of the Feminine in Film by Virginia Apperson,John Beebe Pdf

This pioneering book introduces a largely unremarked dimension of film, the “feminine,” which cannot be reduced to women’s experience, or to men’s projections onto women. The Presence of the Feminine in Film gives body to that often rather loosely formulated Jungian conception, the “feminine aspect of psyche,” by noticing what “feminine” turns out to mean in particular cinematic contexts. Spanning seven decades—from Pride and Prejudice, Notorious, and Letter from an Unknown Woman to Monsoon Wedding, Brokeback Mountain, and The Lives of Others—the movies selected for particular study here make it clear that the feminine is at home in the movies, and that when she appears, it is to appeal to our sensibilities as well as to our senses. This is a book that will enhance the appreciation of film as a depth psychological medium.

Author : Ivone Margulies,Jeremi Szaniawski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501332487

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On Women's Films by Ivone Margulies,Jeremi Szaniawski Pdf

On Women's Films looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta Ramos, Xiaolu Guo, Valérie Massadian, Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Chantal Akerman, or Claire Denis. The collection is also tuned to the continued provocation of feminist cinema landmarks such as Chick Strand's Soft Fiction; Barbara Loden's Wanda; Valie Export's Invisible Adversaries, Cecilia Mangini's Essere donne. Attentive to minor moments, to the pauses and the charge and forms bodies adopt through cinema, the contributors suggest the capacity of women's films to embrace, shape and question the world.

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136256271

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Hollywood Puzzle Films by Warren Buckland Pdf

From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.

Author : Jennifer L. Borda
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476606835

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Women Labor Activists in the Movies by Jennifer L. Borda Pdf

Some of the most indelible images of women in recent American film have been of working women fighting for labor reform or to expose corporate corruption. This critical text explores films with female labor activists as main protagonists, illuminating issues of gender and class while depicting the challenges of working class women. Films covered include Salt of the Earth, Pajama Game, Union Maids, With Babies and Banners, Norma Rae, Silkwood, and Live Nude Girls Unite! Through comparative analysis, the text examines the responses of these films to the labor and feminist movements of the last half century, and how American cinema has articulated notions of disempowerment, ambivalence and, at times, the resistance of both women and the working class at large.

Author : Anna Wilson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838754821

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Persuasive Fictions by Anna Wilson Pdf

From Mary Wollstonecraft's novels to Thelma and Louise or the prose and films of Audre Lorde, her book documents how the first reception of a feminist work - whether in the 1790s or the 1990s - generates a truly unpredictable history of personal and political responses among readers, including the later critical interpretations that try to decide whether a text successfully "resists" the dominant values and powers of its culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231527446

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Chinese Women’s Cinema by Lingzhen Wang Pdf

The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works from the 1920s to the present. Writing from the disciplines of Asian, women's, film, and auteur studies, contributors reclaim the work of Esther Eng, Tang Shu Shuen, Dong Kena, and Sylvia Chang, among others, who have transformed Chinese cinematic modernity. Chinese Women's Cinema is a unique, transcultural, interdisciplinary conversation on authorship, feminist cinema, transnational gender, and cinematic agency and representation. Lingzhen Wang's comprehensive introduction recounts the history and limitations of established feminist film theory, particularly its relationship with female cinematic authorship and agency. She also reviews critiques of classical feminist film theory, along with recent developments in feminist practice, altogether remapping feminist film discourse within transnational and interdisciplinary contexts. Wang's subsequent redefinition of women's cinema, and brief history of women's cinematic practices in modern China, encourage the reader to reposition gender and cinema within a transnational feminist configuration, such that power and knowledge are reexamined among and across cultures and nation-states.

Author : Davina Quinlivan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748664740

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Place of Breath in Cinema by Davina Quinlivan Pdf

This study considers the locus of the breathing body in the film experience and its implications for the study of embodiment in film and sensuous spectatorship.