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Feminisms : Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures / ed. by Anna Backman Rogers, Laura Mulvey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies ; 5Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048523634
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.W6 F454 2015
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 1970s Feminist Film Theory and the Obsolescent Object -- PART I New Perspectives: Images and the Female Body -- Disconnected Heroines, Icy Intelligence: Reframing Feminism(s) and Feminist Identities at the Borders Involving the Isolated Female TV Detective in Scandinavian-Noir -- Lena Dunham's Girls: Can-Do Girls, Feminist Killjoys, and Women Who Make Bad Choices -- Destroy Visual Pleasure: Cinema, Attention, and the Digital Female Body (Or, Angelina Jolie Is a Cyborg) -- The Intertextual Stardom of Iris: Winslet, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer's Disease -- PART II Theory in Contemporary Contexts -- Imagining Safe Space in Feminist Pornography -- Uncommon Sensuality: New Queer Feminist Film/Theory -- The Promise of Touch: Turns to Affect in Feminist Film Theory -- Sound and Feminist Modernity in Black Women's Film Narratives -- PART III History and Practice -- The "New" Experimentalism? Women In/And/On Film -- Conditions of Activism: Feminist Film Activism and the Legacy of the Second Wave -- US Independent Women's Cinema, Sundance Girls, and Identity Politics -- PART IV Contextualizing History: New Frontiers in Feminist Journals -- Suddenly, One Summer: Frauen und Film since 1974 -- (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura -- PART V Discussions: Dialoguing Difference and Extremity in Contemporary Cinemas -- Film, Corporeality, Transgressive Cinema: A Feminist Perspective -- Disconnection Notices: Interview with Miranda July -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles
Summary: This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for scholars of both film and feminism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 1970s Feminist Film Theory and the Obsolescent Object -- PART I New Perspectives: Images and the Female Body -- Disconnected Heroines, Icy Intelligence: Reframing Feminism(s) and Feminist Identities at the Borders Involving the Isolated Female TV Detective in Scandinavian-Noir -- Lena Dunham's Girls: Can-Do Girls, Feminist Killjoys, and Women Who Make Bad Choices -- Destroy Visual Pleasure: Cinema, Attention, and the Digital Female Body (Or, Angelina Jolie Is a Cyborg) -- The Intertextual Stardom of Iris: Winslet, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer's Disease -- PART II Theory in Contemporary Contexts -- Imagining Safe Space in Feminist Pornography -- Uncommon Sensuality: New Queer Feminist Film/Theory -- The Promise of Touch: Turns to Affect in Feminist Film Theory -- Sound and Feminist Modernity in Black Women's Film Narratives -- PART III History and Practice -- The "New" Experimentalism? Women In/And/On Film -- Conditions of Activism: Feminist Film Activism and the Legacy of the Second Wave -- US Independent Women's Cinema, Sundance Girls, and Identity Politics -- PART IV Contextualizing History: New Frontiers in Feminist Journals -- Suddenly, One Summer: Frauen und Film since 1974 -- (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura -- PART V Discussions: Dialoguing Difference and Extremity in Contemporary Cinemas -- Film, Corporeality, Transgressive Cinema: A Feminist Perspective -- Disconnection Notices: Interview with Miranda July -- Notes -- General Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles

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This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for scholars of both film and feminism.

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