Cinematic howling : women's films, women's film theories / Hoi F. Cheu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheu, Hoi F. (Hoi Fung), 1966-

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Feminism and motion pictures.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Women screenwriters.

Feminist films.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2007]

Language Note:

Includes some text in Latin.

Summary:

Cinematic Howling presents a refreshingly unorthodox framework for feminist film studies. Instead of criticizing mainstream movies from feminist perspectives, Hoi Cheu focuses on women's filmmaking itself. Integrating systems theory and feminist aesthetics in his close readings of films and screenplays by women, he considers how women engage the process of storytelling in cinema. The importance of these films, he argues, is not merely that they reflect women's perceptions, but that they have the power to reframe experiences and, consequently, to transform life.

Contents:

1 Feminist Film Theory and the Postfeminist Era: Disney's Mulan 1

2 Howling for Multitudes: Angela Carter's The Company of Wolves 21

3 The Female Authorial Voice: Marguerite Duras' Hiroshima mon amour 49

4 Beyond Freud and Lacan: Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions 70

5 Cathartic Meta-narrative: Lea Pool's Lost and Delirious and Barbara Sweete's Perfect Pie (Two Scripts by Judith Thompson) 95

6 Diasporic Imagination and Transcultural Identity: Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 124

7 Representing Representation: Agnes Varda's Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond) 144

8 From Text to Context: Metadocumentary and Skyworks 157

9 Filling the Theory Vacuum: Marleen Gorris' Antonia 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) and index.

ISBN:

9780774813785

0774813784

OCLC:

122280920