Cummins Herstories on Screen

Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-85129-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Herstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers, revealing how they skillfully deploy genre tropes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cummins, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Herstories in the Counter Narrative Tradition
1. Women’s Storytelling—Narrative, Genre, and the Female Voice
2. Debunking the Cult of True Womanhood/Motherhood on the Frontier
3. Feminist Symbolic Frontier Landscapes
Conclusion
Appendix: The Films
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Cummins is a film professor in the Faculty of Animation, Arts, and Design at Sheridan College. She is also a filmmaker whose work has been broadcast and screened internationally.