Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women

Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-37041-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 271 g

Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film theory remain limited by binary models. Looking instead to more fluid models of spatial relations inspired by Sara Ahmed, Rosi Braidotti, and Doreen Massey, this book discovers wilful, affirmative, and imaginative activations of gender on screen. Through close, micro-analysis of historic European Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979) and contemporary world cinema:  Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book identifies affirmative aesthetics: light, texture, rhythm, movement and sound, all of which that participate in a rewriting of bodies and spaces. Ultimately, Ceuterick argues, affirmative aesthetics can challenge the gender categories and power structures that havebeen thought to determine our habitation of cars, homes, and city streets. Wilful women drive this book forward, through their movement and stillness, imagination and desire, performance and abjection.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ceuterick, Maud

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.      Introduction: Affirmative ethics, wilfulness, and affects as forms.- 2.      Urban wanderer and wilful performances: Head-on (Gegen die wand).- 3.      Housing wilfulness: Wadjda.- 4.      Lived body, affects and cars: Friday night (Vendredi soir).- 5.      Conclusion: Affirmative aesthetics.

Über Autor(innen)

Maud Ceuterick is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has previously published on the ‘road movie’ genre, gender and domesticity in transnational cinema, and space tourism in film.