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Neo-Feminist Cinema

Hilary Radner
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Author : Hilary Radner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 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.

The New Woman's Film

Hilary Radner
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Author : Hilary Radner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317286479

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The New Woman's Film by Hilary Radner Pdf

With the chick flick arguably in decline, film scholars may well ask: what has become of the woman’s film? Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of films, often from the independent sector, that do not sit comfortably in either the category of popular culture or that of high art––films that are perhaps the corollary of the middle-brow novel, or "smart-chick flicks". This book seeks to fill this void by focusing on the steady stream of films about and for women that emerge out of independent American and European cinema, and that are designed to address an international female audience. The new woman's film as a genre includes narratives with strong ties to the woman’s film of classical Hollywood while constituting a new distinctive cycle of female-centered films that in many ways continue the project of second-wave feminism, albeit in a modified form. Topics addressed include: The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995); the feature-length films of Nicole Holofcener, 1996-2013; the film roles of Tilda Swinton; Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008); Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen, 2013); Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach, 2012), Belle (Amma Asante, 2013), Fifty Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2015) and Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel, 2013-).

The Nasty Woman and The Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema

Agnieszka Piotrowska
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Author : Agnieszka Piotrowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429997334

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The Nasty Woman and The Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema by Agnieszka Piotrowska Pdf

The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the ‘nasty woman’ as a means of examining female protagonists in contemporary culture and cinema, particularly films directed by women. The phrase is taken from an insult thrown at Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Presidential election debates and reclaimed by the feminists worldwide. The volume also draws from the figure of the femme fatale in film noir. Piotrowska presents ‘the nasty woman’ across cultural and mythical landscape as a figure fighting against the entitlement of the patriarchy. The writer argues that in films such as Zero Dark Thirty, Red Road, Stories We Tell, and even Gone Girl the ‘nastiness’ of female characters creates a new space for reflection on contemporary society and its struggles against patriarchal systems. The nasty woman or neo femme fatale is a figure who disrupts stable situations and norms; she is pro-active and self-determining, and at times unafraid to use dubious means to achieve her goals. She is often single, but when married she subverts and undermines the fundamental principles of this patriarchal institution. For students and researchers in Cultural Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film Studies and Psychoanalysis in Film Studies, The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema offers an original way of thinking about female creativity and subjectivity. It is also a proud celebration of feminist and female authorship in contemporary Hollywood.

Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo-Noir Cinema

Samantha Lindop
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Author : Samantha Lindop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137503596

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Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo-Noir Cinema by Samantha Lindop Pdf

This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and representation to provide an inclusive, sophisticated, and up-to-date analysis of the femme fatale , fille fatale , and homme fatal from the classic era through to recent postmillennial neo-noir .

Feminism at the Movies

Hilary Radner,Rebecca Stringer
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Author : Hilary Radner,Rebecca Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.

Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

J. Gwynne,N. Muller
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Author : J. Gwynne,N. Muller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137306845

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Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema by J. Gwynne,N. Muller Pdf

By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production.

Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse

Rosanna Maule
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Author : Rosanna Maule
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319480428

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Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse by Rosanna Maule Pdf

This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of women’s films. Inspired by a transnational feminist framework, Maule examines blogs, websites, online services and projects related to women’s filmmaking in an interrogation of the very meaning of women’s cinema at the complex intersection with digital technology and globalization. It discusses women’s cinema 2.0 as a resistant type of cinematic expression and brings attention to the difficulties inherent in raising and expanding visibility for women’s filmic expression within a global sphere dominated by neo-liberalism and post-feminism. The author pays close attention to the challenges and contradictions involved in bringing a niche area of filmmaking and feminist discourse to the broad and diverse communities of the Internet and global media market, while also highlighting the changing forms of media and feminism.

American Postfeminist Cinema

Michele Schreiber
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Author : Michele Schreiber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748693375

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American Postfeminist Cinema by Michele Schreiber Pdf

In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options, why is it that most contemporary American films aimed at women still focus almost exclusively on their pursuit of a heterosexual romantic relationship? American Postfeminist Cinema explores this question and is the first book to examine the symbiotic relationship between heterosexual romance and postfeminist culture. The book argues that since 1980, postfeminism's most salient tensions and anxieties have been reflected and negotiated in the American romance film. Case studies of a broad range of Hollywood and independent films reveal how the postfeminist romance cycle is intertwined with contemporary women's ambivalence and broader cultural anxieties about women's changing social and political status.

Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo-Noir Cinema

Samantha Lindop
Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo Noir Cinema Book PDF

Author : Samantha Lindop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137503596

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Postfeminism and the Fatale Figure in Neo-Noir Cinema by Samantha Lindop Pdf

This book is a thought-provoking study that expands on film scholarship on noir and feminist scholarship on postfeminism, subjectivity, and representation to provide an inclusive, sophisticated, and up-to-date analysis of the femme fatale , fille fatale , and homme fatal from the classic era through to recent postmillennial neo-noir .

Women Who Kill

David Roche,Cristelle Maury
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Author : David Roche,Cristelle Maury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350115613

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Women Who Kill by David Roche,Cristelle Maury Pdf

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism. The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films and series examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina (2015) among others.

Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman

Mari Ruti
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Author : Mari Ruti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501319433

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Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman by Mari Ruti Pdf

In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the revival of “girly” femininity as a cultural ideal. By interpreting Pretty Woman as a movie that defies easy categorization as either feminist or antifeminist, the book counters the all-too-common critical dismissal of romantic comedies as mindless drivel preoccupied with trivial “feminine” concerns such as love and shopping. The book's lucid presentation of the key concerns of feminist film theory, along with its balanced reading of Pretty Woman, shed light on a Hollywood genre often overlooked by film critics: the romantic comedy.

Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas

Alka Kurian
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Author : Alka Kurian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136466700

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Narratives of Gendered Dissent in South Asian Cinemas by Alka Kurian Pdf

This book conducts a post-colonial, gendered investigation of women-centred South Asian films. In these films, the narrative becomes an act of political engagement and a site of feminist struggle: a map that weaves together multiple strands of subjectivity—gender, caste, race, class, religion, and colonialism. The book explores the cinematic construction of an oppositional narrative of feminist dissent with a view to elaborate a historical understanding and theorisation of the ‘materiality and politics’ of the everyday struggle of Indian women. The book analyzes the ways that ‘cultural workers’ have tended to use subversive narratives as a tool of resistance. Narratives that are political, ideological, classed, raced and gendered offer the focus of this exploration. Through strategies of disclosure and documentation of memory, personal experiences, and imaginary events shaped by the larger historical, political, and cultural contexts, these discursive texts engage in the processes of struggle against a plethora of oppression: caste, class, religion, patriarchal, sexual, and (neo)colonial. The study looks at the manner in which, through their creative and aesthetic interventions, South Asian film makers enable the articulation of an alternative gendered subjectivity as well as constitute the ground for personal and collective empowerment. Films discussed include Shyam Benegal’s Nishaant, Nandita Das’ Firaaq, Beate Arnestad’s My Daughter the Terrorist, and Sarah Gavron’s Brick Lane.

Feminist Film Studies

Karen Hollinger
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Author : Karen Hollinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 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.

And the Mirror Cracked

A. Smelik
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Author : A. Smelik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333994702

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And the Mirror Cracked by A. Smelik Pdf

And The Mirror Cracked explores the politics and pleasures of contemporary feminist cinema. Tracing the highly productive ways in which feminist directors create alternative film forms, Anneke Smelik highlights cinematic issues which are central to feminist films: authorship, point of view, metaphor, montage and the excessive image. In a continuous mirror game between theory and cinema, this study explains how these cinematic techniques are used to represent female subjectivity positively and affirmatively. Among the films considered are A Question of Silence , Bagdad Cafe , Sweetie and The Virgin Machine .

Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7

Hilary Neroni
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Author : Hilary Neroni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501313714

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Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 by Hilary Neroni Pdf

The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of a film theory with the interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of how film theory can serve as the basis for textual analysis. Feminist Film Theory and Cléo from 5 to 7 offers a concise introduction to feminist film theory in jargon-free language and shows how this theory can be deployed to interpret Agnes Varda's critically acclaimed 1962 film Cléo from 5 to 7. Hilary Neroni employs the methodology of looking for a feminist alternative among female-oriented films. Through three key concepts-identification, framing the woman's body, and the female auteur-Neroni lays bare the debates and approaches within the vibrant history of feminist film theory, providing a point of entry to feminist film theory from its inception to today. Picking up one of the currents in feminist film theory - that of looking for feminist alternatives among female-oriented films - Neroni traces feminist responses to the contradictions inherent in most representations of women in film, and she details how their responses have intervened in changing what we see on the screen.