The Body and the Screen

Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema

Kate Ince (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-62356-292-2 (ISBN)

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Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries: in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature film. This new volume in the Thinking Cinema series draws on feminist theorists and critics from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities.Mainstream entertainment cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women, objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency,and avoiding the most important questions about how cinema can 'do justice' to female subjectivity: Kate Ince suggests that the films of independent women directors are progressively redressing the balance, and thereby reinvigorating both the narratives and the formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist philosophers to cast a new veil over such films as Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank; and includes a timeline ofdevelopments in women's film-making and feminist film theory from 1970 to 2011.

Dr Kate Ince, Reader in French Film and Gender Studies, Univ. of Birmingham.

Chapter 1: Introduction I: female subjectivity in theoryand criticism
Chapter 2: Introduction II: feminist film theory afterpsychoanalysis
Chapter 3: Body - Key films Romance, The Gleaners and I, The Beaches of Agnes, FishTank
Chapter 4: Look - Key films Wasp,Orlando, The Tango Lesson, BriefCrossing
Chapter 5: Speech- Key films Nocturnal Uproar, Romance, Brief Crossing, Mrs Dalloway
Chapter 6: Performance- Key films No Sex Last Night, The Tango Lesson, Why (Not) Brazil? My Little Princess
Chapter 7. Desire - Key films Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, Fish Tank,White Material
Chapter 8. Freedom - Key films Romance, Vendredi soir, Brief Crossing

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Thinking Cinema
Zusatzinfo	12
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-62356-292-9 / 1623562929
ISBN-13	978-1-62356-292-2 / 9781623562922
Zustand	Neuware