The feminist film philosophy reader Lucy Bolton

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bolton, Lucy, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

From Virginia Woolf to bell hooks, women have written, thought about and worked with film, images, and the visual in philosophical ways since the inception of cinema, and yet their names are generally missing from the discipline of film philosophy. This anthology brings together, for the first time, a collection of writings by women philosophers, writers and thinkers on philosophical aspects of film and visual culture. The collection of texts in this book demonstrates a century of women writing about the visual, considering aesthetics, politics, and challenging dominant ideologies. All can inspire us to think anew about film and visual cultures. Feminist Film Philosophy re-frames the body of work available to film philosophers in schools, universities, and cinema audiences, and stages a long-overdue intervention in the field, thereby enabling the development of the discipline in important and vital ways

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1

Thinking for a Feminist Philosophy of Cinema

Woolf, Virginia [1926] 2008, The Cinema, Virginia Woolf: Selected Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Iris Murdoch, 1956 'On the Cinema', British VOGUE, Conde Nast Publishers.

Cynthia Freeland, 1998 'Feminist Film Theory', in Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. by Michael Kelly, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mich&&&&&&℗le Le D&&uff, 1989 'Long Hair, Short Ideas',The Philosophical Imaginary, translated by Colin Gordon. London & New York: Continuum.

Further Reading

Suggested Viewing

Chapter 2

Film Aesthetics

Katherine Thomson-Jones, 2008 'The Language of Film', Aesthetics and Film, Continuum Aesthetics, London and New York: Continuum.

Sylvie Magerstadt, 2015 'Brave New Worlds: Living Dinosaurs, CGI and a New Aesthetics', in Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema: Beyond Mere Illusions, London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield International.

Christine Battersby, 1989, 'The Male Gift', in Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics, London: The Women's Press Limited.

Chapter 3

Film Phenomenology and Bodies

Katharina Lindner,2018 'Trans, Lesbian or Queer? Passing, (mis)Recognition and (Dis)Appearance in Tomboy, Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality, London & New York: I.B.Tauris.

Elaine Scarry,1985 'Pain and Imagining', The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.

EL Putnam, 2018 'Performing Pregnant: An Aesthetic Investigation of Pregnancy', in Clara Fischer & Luna Dolezal (Eds.), New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment (pp. 203- 220). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mary Midgley, 2014 'The beasts that perish', in Are You an Illusion? Durham: Acumen Publishing Limited.

Chapter 4

Film Time and Space

Maya Deren, [1946] 2005

'Creating Movies with a New Dimension: Time', in Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film, ed. by Bruce R. McPherson, Kingston, N.Y.: Documentext.

Brydie Kosima, 2020, 'Feminist Temporalities: Memory Ghosts and the Collapse of Time', Continuum, 34:6, 901-913. Kara Keeling, 2007, 'In the Interval', The Witch's Flight: the Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense, Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, pp. 27-44. Alexia Panayiotou, 2014 'Spacing Gender, Gendering Space: A radical "strong plot" in film', Management Learning. 2015, 46(4), 427-443

Chapter 5

Film's Feminist Political Power

Audre Lorde, 1978, 'Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power', Sister Outsider, Penguin Random House UK.

bell hooks, [1986]2009, '"Whose pussy is this?" A Feminist Comment', in Reel to Real, New York & London: Routledge.

Tiffany Watt-Smith, 2014 'A Convalescent Recoils', in On Flinching, Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gail Weiss, 2011 'Sharing Time Across Unshared Horizons', in Christina Sch&&oes, Dorothea Olkowski & Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology. Indiana University Press. pp. 171

Chapter 6

Changing the Dominant Imaginary

bell hooks, 1996 'Doing it for Daddy: Black masculinity in the mainstream', in Reel to Real, New York & London: Routlege.

Sarah Arnold, 2013 'Motherhood and self-sacrifice in Japan', A Comparative Analysis of Motherhood in Recent Japanese and US Horror Films. In: Maternal Horror Film. Palgrave Macmillan, London

Mithuraaj Dhusiya, 2019 'Zombies and witches and the anxieties of culture', Indian Horror Cinema: (En)gendering the Monstrous , Routledge India

Alison Kafer, 2013 'Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions', Feminist, Queer, Crip, Indiana University Press

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 2009 'Breasts', in Staring: How We Look, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Patricia Hill Collins, 2000 'Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images', in Black Feminist Thought, New York & London: Routledge.

Conclusion

Reflections, speculations, possibilities

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183902660X

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OCLC:

1520506314