Women S Cinema

Author : Alison Butler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231851350

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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.

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Patricia White
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822376019

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Women’s Cinema, World Cinema by Patricia White Pdf

In Women’s Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. The emergence of a globalized network of film festivals has enabled these young directors to make and circulate films that are changing the aesthetics and politics of art house cinema and challenging feminist genealogies. Extending formal analysis to the production and reception contexts of a variety of feature films, White explores how women filmmakers are both implicated in and critique gendered concepts of authorship, taste, genre, national identity, and human rights. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema revitalizes feminist film studies as it argues for an alternative vision of global media culture.

Author : Christine Gledhill,Julia Knight
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252097775

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Doing Women's Film History by Christine Gledhill,Julia Knight Pdf

Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking--mainstream fiction, experimental, and documentary--but also practices--publicity, journalism, distribution and exhibition--seldom explored in the past. Cutting-edge and inclusive, Doing Women's Film History ventures into topics in the United States and Europe while also moving beyond to explore the influence of women on the cinemas of India, Chile, Turkey, Russia, and Australia. Contributors grapple with historiographic questions that cover film history from the pioneering era to the present day. Yet the writers also address the very mission of practicing scholarship. Essays explore essential issues like identifying women's participation in their cinema cultures, locating previously unconsidered sources of evidence, developing methodologies and analytical concepts to reveal the impact of gender on film production, distribution and reception, and reframing film history to accommodate new questions and approaches. Contributors include: Kay Armatage, Eylem Atakav, Karina Aveyard, Canan Balan, Cécile Chich, Monica Dall'Asta, Eliza Anna Delveroudi, Jane M. Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight, Neepa Majumdar, Michele Leigh, Luke McKernan, Debashree Mukherjee, Giuliana Muscio, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Rashmi Sawhney, Elizabeth Ramirez Soto, Sarah Street, and Kimberly Tomadjoglou.

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1478010800

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Revisiting Women's Cinema by Lingzhen Wang Pdf

In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China. She foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical interventions, and popular artistic experiments, offering a new conception of socialist and postsocialist feminisms, mainstream culture, and women’s cinema. Wang highlights the films of Wang Ping and Dong Kena in the 1950s and 1960s and Zhang Nuanxin and Huang Shuqin in the 1980s and 1990s to unveil how they have been profoundly misread through extant research paradigms entrenched in Western Cold War ideology, post-second-wave cultural feminism, and post-Mao intellectual discourses. Challenging received interpretations, she elucidates how socialist feminism and culture were conceptualized and practiced in relation to China’s search not only for national independence and economic development but also for social emancipation, proletarian culture, and socialist internationalism. Wang calls for a critical reevaluation of historical materialism, socialist feminism, and popular culture to forge an integrated emancipatory vision for future transnational feminist and cultural practices.

Author : Barbara Mennel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Robin Blaetz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822340445

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Women's Experimental Cinema by Robin Blaetz Pdf

This volume offers introductions to the work of fifteen avant-garde American women filmmakers.

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478012337

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Revisiting Women's Cinema by Lingzhen Wang Pdf

In Revisiting Women’s Cinema, Lingzhen Wang ponders the roots of contemporary feminist stagnation and the limits of both commercial mainstream and elite minor cultures by turning to socialist women filmmakers in modern China. She foregrounds their sociopolitical engagements, critical interventions, and popular artistic experiments, offering a new conception of socialist and postsocialist feminisms, mainstream culture, and women’s cinema. Wang highlights the films of Wang Ping and Dong Kena in the 1950s and 1960s and Zhang Nuanxin and Huang Shuqin in the 1980s and 1990s to unveil how they have been profoundly misread through extant research paradigms entrenched in Western Cold War ideology, post-second-wave cultural feminism, and post-Mao intellectual discourses. Challenging received interpretations, she elucidates how socialist feminism and culture were conceptualized and practiced in relation to China’s search not only for national independence and economic development but also for social emancipation, proletarian culture, and socialist internationalism. Wang calls for a critical reevaluation of historical materialism, socialist feminism, and popular culture to forge an integrated emancipatory vision for future transnational feminist and cultural practices.

Author : Shuqin Cui
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824865634

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Women Through the Lens by Shuqin Cui Pdf

Women Through the Lens raises the question of how gender, especially the image of woman, acts as a visual and discursive sign in the creation of the nation-state in twentieth-century China. Tracing the history of Chinese cinema through the last hundred years from the perspective of transnational feminism, Shuqin Cui reveals how women have been granted a "privileged visibility" on screen while being denied discursive positions as subjects. In addition, her careful attention to the visual language system of cinema shows how "woman" has served as the site for the narration of nation in the context of China's changing social and political climate. Placing gender and nation in a historical framework, the book first shows how early productions had their roots in shadow plays, a popular form of public entertainment. In examining the "Red Classics" of socialist cinema as a mass cultural form, the book shows how the utopian vision of emancipating the entire proletariat, women included, produced a collective ideology that declared an end to gender difference. Cui then documents and discusses the cinematic spectacle of woman as essential to such widely popular films as Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" and Zhang Yimou's "Ju Do." Finally, the author brings a feminist perspective to the issues of gender and nation by turning her attention to women directors and their self-representations.

Author : Melanie Bell,Melanie Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135231927

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British Women's Cinema by Melanie Bell,Melanie Williams Pdf

British Women’s Cinema examines the place of female-centred films throughout British film history, from silent melodrama and 1940s costume dramas right up to the contemporary British ‘chick flick’.

Author : Mariana Liz,Hilary Owen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501349744

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Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal by Mariana Liz,Hilary Owen Pdf

Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal brings together scholars from Portugal, UK and the USA, to discuss 14 women film directors in Portugal, focussing on their production in both feature film and documentary genres over the last half-century. It charts the specific cinematic visions that these women have brought to the re-emergence of Portuguese national cinema in the wake of the 1974 Revolution and African decolonisation, and to the growing internationalisation of Portugal's arguably 'minor' or 'small nation' cinema, with significant young women directors such as Leonor Teles achieving prominence abroad. The history of Portuguese women's cinema only begins systematically after the 1974 revolution and democratisation. This collection shows how female auteurs made their mark on Portugal's post-revolutionary conceptualisation of a differently 'national' cinema, through the ethnographic output of the late 1970s. It goes on to explore women's decisively gendered interventions in the cinematic memory practices that opened up around the masculine domain of the Colonial Wars in Africa. Feminist political issues such as Portugal's 30-year abortion campaign and LGBT status have become more visible since the 1990s, alongside preoccupations with global concerns relating to immigration, transit and minority status communities. The book also demonstrates how women have contributed to the evolution of soundscapes, the genre of essay cinema, film's relationship to the archive, and the adaptation of the written word. The result is a powerful, provocative and definitive challenge to the marginalisation of Portuguese female-directed film in terms of 'double minority'.

Author : Sue Thornham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844579143

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Spaces of Women's Cinema by Sue Thornham Pdf

Sue Thornham explores issues of space, place, time and gender in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by contemporary women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood. Beginning from questions about space itself and the way it has been gendered, she asks how representation functions in relation to space and time, and how this, too, is gendered, before moving to an exploration of how such questions might be considered in relation to women's filmmaking. In sections dealing with spaces from wilderness to city, she analyses in detail how these issues have been dealt with by women filmmakers, addressing the work of filmmakers such as Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, Julie Dash, Maggie Greenwald, Patricia Rozema and Carol Morley, and films including 'An Angel at My Table' (1990), 'Daughters of the Dust' (1991) 'The Ballad of Little Jo' (1993), 'Winter's Bone' (2010), 'Zero Dark Thirty' (2012) and 'The Falling' (2014).

Author : Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1861892209

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Women, Islam and Cinema by Gönül Dönmez-Colin Pdf

The first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema.

Author : Karyn Kay,Gerald Peary
Publisher : Plume
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015001425019

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Women and the Cinema by Karyn Kay,Gerald Peary Pdf

Author : Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0802079644

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Gendering the Nation by Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow Pdf

The definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film making in Canada.