Women filmmakers : refocusing / edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levitin, Jacqueline, 1945-

Plessis, Judith.

Raoul, Valerie, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 496 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Refocusing: Talking about (and with) Women Filmmakers / Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, Valerie Raoul 3

Part 1 Women Filmmakers: Refocusing History and Theory

1 Women, Film, Resistance: Changing Paradigms / E. Ann Kaplan 15

2 Refocusing Authorship in Women's Filmmaking / Angela Martin 29

3 Women Filmmakers and the Avant-Garde: From Dulac to Duras / Donia Mounsef 38

4 Cinefeminism in Its Middle Ages, or "Please, Please, Please Give Me Back My Pleasure": The 1990s Work of Sally Potter, Chantal Akerman, and Yvonne Rainer / Catherine Fowler 51

Part 2 Close-up on the Life and Works of Auteures from Europe

5 Helma Sanders Brahms: An Introduction / Steven Taubeneck 65

6 Interview and Excerpts from a Master Class with Helma Sanders Brahms 71

7 The Personal and the Political: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta 78

8 Changing Identity: Margarethe von Trotta's The Second Awakening of Christa Klages / Siew Jin Ooi 84

9 Agnieszka Holland: Continuity, the Self, and Artistic Vision / B. Amarillis Lugo de Fabritz 96

10 The Dancing Body: Sally Potter as a Feminist Auteure / Corinn Columpar 108

Part 3 Women in the Mainstream: Using Popular Genres in Europe

11 The Vanishing Healer in Doris Dorrie's Nobody Loves Me / Kathryn Barnwell, Marni Stanley 119

12 Women Directors and Genre Films in France / Brigitte Rollet 127

13 Mainstreaming the Margins in France: Three Films au Feminin / Caroline Eades 138

14 Lina Wertmuller: The Grotesque in Seven Beauties / Josette Deleas 151

Part 4 Focus on Conditions of Production: Training, Funding, Distribution

15 Agnieszka Holland, Barbara Sass, and Dorota Kedzierzawska in the World of Male Polish Filmmaking / Janina Falkowska 167

16 The Films of Helke Misselwitz: Reconstructing Gender and Identity in the Former GDR / Ute Lischke 180

17 "Cinema des Copines" and an Interview with Patricia Plattner / Suzanne Buchan 188

18 Making Feature Films: Panel Discussion with Helma Sanders Brahms (Germany), Caroline Eades (France), Patricia Plattner (Switzerland), and Anne Wheeler (Canada) 199

19 Making Documentary Films: Panel discussion with Nicole Giguere, Brenda Longfellow, Loretta Todd, and Aerlyn Weissman / Michelle Bjornson 208

Part 5 Women's Films through a Postcolonial Lens

20 Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Representations of Identity in Two Kenyan Films / Beatrice Wanjiku Mukora 219

21 Shuhaimi Baba and the Malaysian New Wave: Negotiating the Recuperation of Malay Custom (Adat) / Gaik Cheng Khoo 229

22 Representation of Women in the Films of Maria Luisa Bemberg / Maria de los Angeles Carbonetti, Rita de Grandis, Monica Escudero, Omar Rodriguez 239

23 Temporality and Identity in Sara Gomez's Documentaries / Susan Lord 249

24 Sprung from Sisterhood: Interview with Yue-Qing Yang on Making Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China 264

Part 6 National and Cultural Montages: Crossing Boundaries

25 An Introduction to Deepa Mehta: Making Films in Canada and India / Jacqueline Levitin 273

26 Excerpts from a Master Class with Deepa Mehta 284

27 The Post of Colonial in the Works of Pratibha Parmar: Kiss My Chuddies / Tracy Prince 291

28 Interview and Excerpts from a Master Class with Pratibha Parmar / E. Ann Kaplan 297

29 Documentaries Made in India: Raman Mann and Patricia Plattner 311

Part 7 Representations of and by Minority Women

30 Women of Maghrebi Origin in Recent Films from France / Carrie Tarr 323

31 Katinka Heyns: Questioning Afrikaans Culture / Lesley Marx 330

32 Making Novia que te vea: Interview with Guita Schyfter 342

33 Beyond the Homeland: Latino-Canadian Film and the Work of Marilu Mallet and Claudia Morgado / Elena Feder 347

Part 8 Revisioning Gender and Diversity in Canada

34 Women Filmmakers in Quebec: Documentaries (Nicole Giguere) and Feature Films (Jocelyne Denault) 373

35 Querying/Queering Stereotypes: Interview with Carole Ducharme on Making Straight from the Suburbs 386

36 Shadow and Light: First Nations Women Filmmakers / Ken Eisner 394

37 Unsettling the West: First Nations Films in British Columbia / Michelle La Flamme 403

38 Leaving Gender Aside: The Legacy of Studio D? / Diane Burgess 418

39 The Gender of the Gaze in Cinematography: A Woman with a Movie Camera / Zoe Dirse 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0774809027

OCLC:

50186068