Women's cinema, world cinema : projecting contemporary feminisms

Women's cinema, world cinema : projecting contemporary feminisms / Patricia White.

"In Women's Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, a...

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Main Author: White, Patricia, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Women motion picture producers and directors.
Feminism and motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • To each her own cinema : world cinema and the woman cineaste. Jane Campion's Cannes connections ; Lucrecia Martel's vertiginous authorship ; Samīrā Makhmalbāf's sororal cinema
  • Framing feminisms : women's cinema as art cinema. Deepa Mehta's elemental feminism ; Iranian diasporan women directors and cultural capital
  • Feminist film in the age of the chick flick : global flows of women's cinema. Engendering new Korean cinema in Jeong Jae-eun's Take care of my cat ; Nadine Labaki's celebrity
  • Network narratives : Asian women directors. Two-timing the system in Nia Dinata's Love for share ; Zero Chou and the spaces of Chinese lesbian film
  • Is the whole world watching? : Fictions of women's human rights. Sabiha Sumar's Democratic cinema ; Jasmila Žbanić's Grbavica and Balkan cinema's incommensurable gazes ; Claudia Llosa's Trans/national address
  • Afterword.

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