Author : Alison Butler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231851350
Women's Cinema by Alison Butler Pdf
Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within. Using canonical directors and less established names, ranging from Chantal Akerman to Moufida Tlatli, as examples, Butler argues that women's cinema is unified in spite of its diversity by the ways in which it reworks cinematic conventions.