Women's Cinema

The Contested Screen
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-903364-27-7
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butler, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: From Counter-Cinema to Minor Cinema
Girls' Own Stories: Genre and Gender in Hollywood Cinema
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription in Women's Experimental Cinema
Afterword: Women's Cinema/Transnational Cinema
The Politics of location and dislocation: Women's Cinema and Cultural Identity

Über Autor(innen)

Alison Butler is lecturer in film studies at the University of Reading, UK.