Films And Feminism

Author : Hilary Radner,Rebecca Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136519123

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Feminism at the Movies by Hilary Radner,Rebecca Stringer Pdf

Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities. The volume contains essays by following contributors: Taunya Lovell Banks, Heather Brook, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Michael DeAngelis, Barry Keith Grant, Kelly Kessler, Hannah Hamad, Christina Lane (with Nicole Richter), JaneMaree Maher, David Hansen-Miller (with Rosalind Gill), Gary Needham, Sarah Projansky, Hilary Radner, Rob Schaap, Yael D Sherman, Michele Shreiber, Janet Staiger, Peter Stapleton, Rebecca Stringer, Yvonne Tasker, and Ewa Ziarek.

Author : Sar?, Gül?ah,Çetin, Derya
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799817765

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International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry by Sar?, Gül?ah,Çetin, Derya Pdf

Gender studies has maintained its status as a heavily researched field. However, women and their role in cinema is a vastly understudied topic that deals with various aspects of feminism and sexism. The function of women in the film industry has evolved over time and proven to be an interesting area of research regarding the transition from sexual icons to respected professionals. Feminism is a widely researched subject, yet its specific application within cinema is an area that has yet to be studied. International Perspectives on Feminism and Sexism in the Film Industry is an essential reference source that examines the representation of women in cinema and provides a feminist approach to various aspects of the film industry including labor, production, and the cultural impact of women in motion pictures. Featuring research on topics such as violence against women, feminist film theory, and psychoanalysis, this book is ideally designed for directors, industry professionals, writers, screenwriters, activists, professors, students, administrators, and researchers in fields that include film studies, gender studies, mass media, and communications.

Author : Sarah Dillon
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474434201

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Deconstruction, Feminism, Film by Sarah Dillon Pdf

How can multicultural governance respond to our increasingly complex migratory world?

Author : Laura Pietropaolo,Ada Testaferri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253116236

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Feminisms in the Cinema by Laura Pietropaolo,Ada Testaferri Pdf

"Feminisms in the Cinema provides a platform for both women filmmakers and the women who analyze their films." -- Bloomsbury Review "... invaluable... [demonstrates] how gender and genre intersect... how feminisms are flourishing, at home and abroad." -- Women's Review of Books Well-known feminist theorists juxtapose their work with that of women filmmakers. Each writer addresses some aspect of marginality, discussing it as a political strategy and as a challenge to power structures.

Author : Geetha Ramanathan
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 190476469X

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Feminist Auteurs by Geetha Ramanathan Pdf

Feminist Auteurs examines a rich and diverse body of work that has received insufficient attention both in film studies and in feminist theory on film. Looking at individual films within the context of feminist film as a genre, Ramanathan examines film from diverse cultural traditions, while paying close attention to what might be regarded as feminist in different cultural contexts. The films chosen expand our ideas of feminism covering as they do film from Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the US. Full-length interpretations of twenty-four films, both older and contemporary, including Vagabond, India Song, Bhaji on the Beach, Chocolat, and Daughters of the Dust lay out a complete and powerful framework for reading women's film.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Feminism and motion pictures
ISBN : PSU:000056075243

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Women's Pictures by Annette Kuhn Pdf

Author : Karen Hollinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136509209

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Feminist Film Studies by Karen Hollinger Pdf

Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism. Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women’s representation and involvement in film, complemented by analyses of key texts that illustrate major topics in the field. Key areas include: a brief history of the development of feminist film theory the theorization of the male gaze and the female spectator women in genre films and literary adaptations the female biopic feminism and avant-garde and documentary film women as auteurs lesbian representation women in Third Cinema. Each chapter includes a "Films in Focus" section, which analyzes key texts related to the chapter’s major topic, including examples from classical Hollywood, world cinema, and the contemporary period. This book provides students in both film and gender/women’s studies with a clear introduction to the field of feminist film theory and criticism.

Author : Jasbir Jain,Sudha Rai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Feminism and motion pictures
ISBN : 8131607127

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Films and Feminism by Jasbir Jain,Sudha Rai Pdf

"Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies."

Author : Patricia Erens
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253206103

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Issues in Feminist Film Criticism by Patricia Erens Pdf

"This anthology makes it abundantly clear that feminist film criticism is flourishing and has developed dramatically since its inception in the early 1970s." —Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Erens brings together a wide variety of writings and methodologies by U.S. and British feminist film scholars. The twenty-seven essays represent some of the most influential work on Hollywood film, women's cinema, and documentary filmmaking to appear during the past decade and beyond. Contributors include Lucie Arbuthnot, Linda Artel, Pam Cook, Teresa de Lauretis, Mary Ann Doane, Elizabeth Ellsworth, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Mary C. Gentile, Bette Gordon, Florence Jacobowitz, Claire Johnston, E. Ann Kaplan, Annette Kuhn, Julia Lesage, Judith Mayne, Sonya Michel, Tania Modleski, Laura Mulvey, B. Ruby Rich, Gail Seneca, Kaja Silverman, Lori Spring, Jackie Stacey, Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman, Susan Wengraf, Linda Williams, and Robin Wood.

Author : Karen Hollinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415575263

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Feminist Film Studies by Karen Hollinger Pdf

This comprehensive textbook provides an accessible overview of the field of women and film, complemented by an analyses of key texts that illustrate major topics in the field. The text covers a wide range of areas in which women's representation and involvement in film are paramount issues.

Author : Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317212157

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Film Feminisms by Kristin Lené Hole,Dijana Jelača Pdf

Film Feminisms offers a global and updated overview of the history, present-day concerns, and future of feminist film and theory. It introduces frameworks from phenomenology, affect theory, and psychoanalysis to reception studies, new media theories, and critical historiography, as well as engaging with key issues in documentary ethics, genre theory, and star studies. This new textbook situates feminist film theory within the larger framework of transnational scholarly approaches, as well as decolonial, queer, disability studies, and critical race theories. It offers a much-needed update on pedagogical approaches to feminist film studies, providing discussions of filmmakers and films that have been overlooked in the field, or that are overdue for further analysis. Each chapter is supported by a variety of pedagogical features including activities, key terms, and case studies. Many of the activities draw on contemporary digital media, such as social media and streaming platforms, to update the field to today's changing media landscape.

Author : Jasbir Jain,Sudha Rai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015052175182

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Films and Feminism by Jasbir Jain,Sudha Rai Pdf

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Author : Barbara Mennel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252050961

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Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema by Barbara Mennel Pdf

From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment. Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation. Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent's varied kinds of capitalism and influenced by concepts in second-wave feminism. More than ever, narratives of work put female characters front and center--and female directors behind the camera. Yet her analysis shows that each film remains a complex mix of progressive and retrogressive dynamics as it addresses the changing nature of work in Europe.

Author : So Mayer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857729941

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Political Animals by So Mayer Pdf

Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but starting to change cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional, sustainable, family-friendly and far-reaching. Political Animals argues that, forty years since Laura Mulvey's seminal essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' identified the urgent need for a feminist counter-cinema, this promise seems to be on the point of fulfilment. Forty years of a transnational, trans-generational cinema has given rise to conversations between the work of now well-established filmmakers such as Abigail Child, Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twenty-first century auteurs including Kelly Reichardt and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors such as Sandrine Bonnaire, Shonali Bose, Zeina Daccache, and Hana Makhmalbaf. A new and diverse generation of British independent filmmakers such as Franny Armstrong, Andrea Arnold, Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Tina Gharavi, Sally El Hoseini, Carol Morley, Samantha Morton, Penny Woolcock, and Campbell X join a worldwide dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new and informed point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that refuses to be domesticated by the persistence of everyday sexism, striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own.

Author : Hilary Radner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136995996

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Neo-Feminist Cinema by Hilary Radner Pdf

What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema? Through a combination of cultural and industry analysis, Hilary Radner’s Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture shows how the needs of conglomerate Hollywood have encouraged an emphasis on consumer culture within films made for women. By exploring a number of representative "girly films," including Pretty Woman, Legally Blonde, Maid in Manhattan, The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City: The Movie, Radner proposes that rather than being "post-feminist," as is usually assumed, such films are better described as "neo-feminist." Examining their narrative format, as it revolves around the story of an ambitious unmarried woman who defines herself through consumer culture as much as through work or romance, Radner argues that these films exemplify neo-liberalist values rather than those of feminism. As such, Neo-Feminist Cinema offers a new explanation as to why feminist-oriented scholars and audiences who are seeking more than "labels and love" from their film experience have viewed recent "girly films" as a betrayal of second-wave feminism, and why, on the other hand, such films have proven to be so successful at the box office.