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Feminist Film Studies
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Feminist Film Studies as discussed by the authors provides an accessible overview of women's representation and involvement in film, complemented by analyses of key texts that illustrate major topics in the field of feminist film theory and criticism.Abstract:
Feminist Film Studies is a readable, yet comprehensive textbook for introductory classes in feminist film theory and criticism.
Karen Hollinger provides an accessible overview of women’s representation and involvement in film, complemented by analyses of key texts that illustrate major topics in the field. Key areas include:
a brief history of the development of feminist film theory
the theorization of the male gaze and the female spectator
women in genre films and literary adaptations
the female biopic
feminism and avant-garde and documentary film
women as auteurs
lesbian representation
women in Third Cinema.
Each chapter includes a "Films in Focus" section, which analyzes key texts related to the chapter’s major topic, including examples from classical Hollywood, world cinema, and the contemporary period.
This book provides students in both film and gender/women’s studies with a clear introduction to the field of feminist film theory and criticism.read more
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Dementia and the biopolitics of the biopic: from Iris to The iron lady.
TL;DR: What is at stake in these films both in their authorisation of particular versions of public lives and for their significance for the cultural politics of representation in the context of explorations of personhood and dementia are explored.
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Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black
TL;DR: This paper argued that Orange Is the New Black (OITNB) uses postfeminist strategies to covertly promote prison reform and exercise a subtle critique of (female) mass incarceration while remaining...
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Compromising positions
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‘Leav(ing) room for the reader’ : the agency of characters who read in the fiction of Ali Smith
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that characters who read are a recurring preoccupation in the work of contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith, who foregrounds the act of reading as equal to, if not more important than, writing itself.
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The Making-Of: An Autoethnographic Cinema on the Meanings of Contemporary Craft Practicing for a Young Hobbyist
TL;DR: In the year 2013, the Jubilee Year of Handcraft in Finland, a short film competition called Crafts in Our Lives as discussed by the authors asked craft practitioners to present their vision of how craft have been part of their lives through film-making, which raised the level of public awareness towards craft by engaging craft-makers in several virtual and in-person craft projects.
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