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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levitin, Jacqueline.

Plessis, Judith.

Raoul, Valerie, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and motion pictures.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What difference does it make when a woman wields the camera? Women Filmmakers: Refocusing casts a critical eye on the often-overlooked work of women filmmakers. It provides a rich sampling of the wealth of thought and experience of women in the film industry and brings together in a unique way the views of creators and critics from around the world. Questions of history and theory, genre, creativity, funding and distribution, national and cultural identity, and class all come to the fore in this unparalled contemporary study of women's film culture. Equally accessible to non-specialists and researchers, this book will appeal to filmmakers, film studies faculty and students, film buffs, and those with an interest in women's studies and cultural studies. This wide-ranging volume includes contributions from prominent filmmakers and scholars, such as Helma Sanders Brahms, Deepa Mehta, Pratibha Parmar, Margarethe von Trotta, Ann Wheeler, and E. Ann Kaplan

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Women Filmmakers; Introduction Refocusing: Talking about (and with) Women Filmmakers; Part 1 Women Filmmakers: Refocusing History and Theory; Part 2 Close-up on the Life and Works of Auteures from Europe; Part 3 Women in the Mainstream: Using Popular Genres in Europe; Part 4 Focus on Conditions of Production: Training, Funding, Distribution; Part 5 Women's Films through a Postcolonial Lens; Part 6 National and Cultural Montages: Crossing Boundaries; Part 7 Representations of and by Minority Women

Part 8 Revisioning Gender and Diversity in Canada Selected Film Sources; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; About the Editors; Index; 1 Women, Film, Resistance: Changing Paradigms; 2 Refocusing Authorship in Women's Filmmaking; 3 Women Filmmakers and the Avant-Garde: From Dulac to Duras; 4 Cinefeminism in Its Middle Ages, or "Please, Please, Please Give Me Back My Pleasure": The 1990's Work of Sally Potter, Chantal Akerman, and Yvonne Rainer; 5 Helma Sanders Brahms: An Introduction; 6 Interview and Excerpts from a Master Class with Helma Sanders Brahms

7 The Personal and the Political: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta 8 Changing Identity: Margarethe von Trotta's The Second Awakening of Christa Klages; 9 Agnieszka Holland: Continuity, the Self, and Artistic Vision; 10 The Dancing Body: Sally Potter as a Feminist Auteure; 11 The Vanishing Healer in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me; 12 Women Directors and Genre Films in France; 13 Mainstreaming the Margins in France: Three Films au Féminin; 14 Lina Wertmüller: The Grotesque in Seven Beauties

15 Agnieszka Holland, Barbara Sass, and Dorota Kedzierzawska in the World of Male Polish Filmmaking16 The Films of Helke Misselwitz: Reconstructing Gender and Identity in the Former GDR; 17 "Cinéma des Copines" and an Interview with Patricia Plattner; 18 Making Feature Films: Panel Discussion with Helma Sanders Brahms (Germany), Caroline Eades (France), Patricia Plattner (Switzerland), and Anne Wheeler (Canada); 19 Making Documentary Films: Panel Discussion with Nicole Giguère, Brenda Longfellow, Loretta Todd, and Aerlyn Weissman

20 Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Representations of Identity in Two Kenyan Films 21 Shuhaimi Baba and the Malaysian New Wave: Negotiating the Recuperation of Malay Custom (Adat); 22 Representation of Women in the Films of María Luisa Bemberg; 23 Temporality and Identity in Sara Gómez's Documentaries; 24 Sprung from Sisterhood: Interview with Yue- Qing Yang on Making Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China; 25 An Introduction to Deepa Mehta: Making Films in Canada and India; 26 Excerpts from a Master Class with Deepa Mehta

27 The Post of Colonial in the Works of Pratibha Parmar: Kiss My Chuddies

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmographies.

ISBN:

1-283-12984-1

9786613129840

0-7748-5040-X

OCLC:

923440317