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The body and the screen : female subjectivities in contemporary women's cinema / Kate Ince.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.W6 I515 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ince, Kate, author.
- Series:
- Thinking cinema ; v. 5.
- Thinking cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--France--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Feminism and motion pictures.
- Feminist films.
- Women motion picture producers and directors.
- France.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Women motion picture producers and directors--France.
- Women motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain.
- Feminist films--France--History and criticism.
- Feminist films--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Feminism and motion pictures--France.
- Feminism and motion pictures--Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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 Agnes 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.
- Contents:
- Female subjectivity in philosophy and theory
- Feminist film studies and women's cinema after psychoanalysis
- Body
- Look
- Speech
- Performance
- Desire
- Freedom
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmography.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ince, Kate author. Body and the screen
- ISBN:
- 9781623562922
- 1623562929
- 9781623565817
- 1623565812
- OCLC:
- 934676846
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