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Women’s Cinema, World Cinema

Author : Patricia White
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822376019

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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.

Women's Cinema

Author : Alison Butler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231851350

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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.

Chinese Women’s Cinema

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231527446

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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.

Film Studies

Author : Alexandra Heidi Karriker
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015051884354

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Film Studies by Alexandra Heidi Karriker Pdf

Ten essays explore how the roles, representations, and productivity of women are reflected in contemporary world cinema. Some of the topics are the undercurrent of class in Heavenly Creatures, female icons in recent Russian film, and the quest for external validation in female coming-of-age films. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Contemporary Women's Cinema, Global Scenarios and Transnational Contexts

Author : Veronica Pravadelli
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 8869770990

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Contemporary Women's Cinema, Global Scenarios and Transnational Contexts by Veronica Pravadelli Pdf

The anthology explores contemporary women's cinema in relation to issues related to gender and globalization. The anthology gathers scholars from several parts of the world - from Italy, the USA, Turkey, Iran, Greece, New Zealand, Argentina, Germany and Canada. Such a global perspective is mirrored in the book's content: the essays consider women's production in the domain of cinema by looking at various films and filmmakers around the globe and by tackling the relation between national, transnational and global contexts in film production. What comes out is a multifaceted picture showing that women filmmakers, and especially non- Western filmmakers, are key social actors able to narrate the complexities of the current geopolitical condition and of its subjects. The anthology explores contemporary women's cinema in relation to issues related to gender and globalization. The anthology gathers scholars from several parts of the world - from Italy, the USA, Turkey, Iran, Greece, New Zealand, Argentina, Germany and Canada.

Revisiting Women's Cinema

Author : Lingzhen Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1478010800

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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.

Doing Women's Film History

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.

Women and Turkish Cinema

Author : Eylem Atakav
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415674652

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Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military's intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics, cultural identity and representation. The central proposition of this book is that enforced depolticisation introduced after the coup is responsible for uniting feminism and film in 1980s Turkey. The feminist movement was able to flourish precisely because it was not perceived as political or politically significant. In a parallel move in the films of the 1980s there was an increased tendency to focus on the individual, on women's issues and lives, in order to avoid the overtly political. Women and Turkish Cinema provides a comprehensive view of cinema's approach to women in a country which straddles European and Middle Eastern cultural conceptions, identities and religious values and will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Film Studies, Gender Studies and Middle East Studies, amongst others.

Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2

Author : Parviz Jahed
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783204717

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Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2 by Parviz Jahed Pdf

Working at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema has produced some of the most critically lauded films in the world today. The first volume in the Directory of World Cinema: Iran turned the spotlight on the award-winning cinema of Iran, with particular attention to the major genres and movements, historical turning points and prominent figures that have helped shape it. Considering a wide range of genres, including Film Farsi, New Wave, war film, art house film and women’s cinema, the book was greeted with enthusiasm by film studies scholars, students working on alternative or national cinema and fans and aficionados of Iranian film. Building on the momentum and influence of its predecessor, Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2 will be welcomed by all seeking an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to Iranian cinema.

Women in African Cinema

Author : Lizelle Bisschoff,Stefanie Van de Peer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351854702

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Women in African Cinema: Beyond the Body Politic showcases the very prolific but often marginalised presence of women in African cinema, both on the screen and behind the camera. This book provides the first in-depth and sustained examination of women in African cinema. Films by women from different geographical regions are discussed in case studies that are framed by feminist theoretical and historical themes, and seen through an anti-colonial, philosophical, political and socio-cultural cinematic lens. A historical and theoretical introduction provides the context for thematic chapters exploring topics ranging from female identities, female friendships, women in revolutionary cinema, motherhood and daughterhood, women’s bodies, sexuality, and spirituality. Each chapter serves up a theoretical-historical discussion of the chosen theme, followed by two in-depth case studies that provide contextual and transnational readings of the films as well as outlining production, distribution and exhibition contexts. This book contributes to the feminist anti-racist revision of the canon by placing African women filmmakers squarely at the centre of African film culture. Demonstrating the depth and diversity of the feminine or female aesthetic in African cinema, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of African cinema, media studies and African studies.

Women's Experimental Cinema

Author : Robin Blaetz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822340445

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

Gendering the Nation

Author : Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0802079644

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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.

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

Author : Patricia Pisters
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781474466974

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The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.

Uninvited

Author : Patricia White
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0253336414

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Lesbian characters, stories, and images were barred from onscreen depiction in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s together with all forms of "sex perversion." Through close readings of gothics, ghost films, and maternal melodramas addressed to female audiences, Uninvited argues that viewers are "invited" to make lesbian "inferences." Looking at the lure of some of the great female star personae (in films such as Rebecca, Pinky, The Old Maid, Queen Christina, and The Haunting) and at the visual coding of supporting actresses, it identifies lesbian spectatorial strategies. White's archival research, textual analyses, and novel theoretical insights make an important contribution to film, lesbian, and feminist studies. Book jacket.

Marked Women

Author : Russell Campbell
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299212537

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Julia Roberts played a prostitute, famously, in Pretty Woman. So did Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Fonda in Klute, Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie, Greta Garbo in Anna Christie, and Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for Monster. This engaging and generously illustrated study explores the depiction of female prostitute characters and prostitution in world cinema, from the silent era to the present-day industry. From the woman with control over her own destiny to the woman who cannot get away from her pimp, Russell Campbell shows the diverse representations of prostitutes in film. Marked Women classifies fifteen recurrent character types and three common narratives, many of them with their roots in male fantasy. The “Happy Hooker,” for example, is the liberated woman whose only goal is to give as much pleasure as she receives, while the “Avenger,” a nightmare of the male imagination, represents the threat of women taking retribution for all the oppression they have suffered at the hands of men. The “Love Story,” a common narrative, represents the prostitute as both heroine and anti-heroine, while “Condemned to Death” allows men to manifest, in imagination only, their hostility toward women by killing off the troubled prostitute in an act of cathartic violence. The figure of the woman whose body is available at a price has fascinated and intrigued filmmakers and filmgoers since the very beginning of cinema, but the manner of representation has also been highly conflicted and fiercely contested. Campbell explores the cinematic prostitute as a figure shaped by both reactionary thought and feminist challenges to the norm, demonstrating how the film industry itself is split by fascinating contradictions.