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Author : Karyn Kay
Release : 1977
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Women and the Cinema by : Karyn Kay
Download or read book Women and the Cinema written by Karyn Kay. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Mennel
Release : 2019-01-30
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema by : Barbara Mennel
Download or read book Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema written by Barbara Mennel. This book was released on 2019-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment. Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation. Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent's varied kinds of capitalism and influenced by concepts in second-wave feminism. More than ever, narratives of work put female characters front and center--and female directors behind the camera. Yet her analysis shows that each film remains a complex mix of progressive and retrogressive dynamics as it addresses the changing nature of work in Europe.
Author : Alison Butler
Release : 2019-07-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 359/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Cinema by : Alison Butler
Download or read book Women's Cinema written by Alison Butler. This book was released on 2019-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within. Using canonical directors and less established names, ranging from Chantal Akerman to Moufida Tlatli, as examples, Butler argues that women's cinema is unified in spite of its diversity by the ways in which it reworks cinematic conventions.
Author : Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Release : 2004-11-04
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 201/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, Islam and Cinema by : Gönül Dönmez-Colin
Download or read book Women, Islam and Cinema written by Gönül Dönmez-Colin. This book was released on 2004-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to examine the troubled relationships between women, Islam and cinema.
Author : Laura Mulvey
Release : 2019-11-15
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Afterimages by : Laura Mulvey
Download or read book Afterimages written by Laura Mulvey. This book was released on 2019-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies, this urgent and compelling collection of essays is essential reading for anyone interested in the power and pleasures of moving images. Its title, Afterimages, alludes to the dislocation of time that runs through many of the films and works it discusses as well as to the way we view them. Beginning with a section on the theme of woman as spectacle, a shift in focus leads to films from across the globe, directed by women and about women, all adopting radical cinematic strategies. Mulvey goes on to consider moving image works made for art galleries, arguing that the aesthetics of cinema have persisted into this environment. Structured in three main parts, Afterimages also features an appendix of ten frequently asked questions on her classic feminist essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” in which Mulvey addresses questions of spectatorship, autonomy, and identity that are crucial to our era today.
