Transnational Feminism in Film and Media

2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8370-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Comparative Feminist Studies

This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies. Focusing on film, media art, and video essays, the contributors chart innovative strategies for exploring contemporary visual cultures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marciniak, K.

Imre, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Mapping Transnational Feminist Media Studies; Katarzyna Marciniak, Anikó Imre, and Áine O'Healy PART I: NEW FRONTIERS OF MIGRATION 1. Screening Unlivable Lives: The Cinema of Borders; Bruce Bennett and Imogen Tyler 2. Border Traffic: Reimagining the Voyage to Italy; Áine O'Healy 3. Cinema without Frontiers: Transnational Women's Filmmaking in Iran and Turkey; Asuman Suner 4. Refusal of Reproduction: Paradoxes of Becoming-Woman in Transnational Moroccan Filmmaking; Patricia Pisters 5. 'Enter Freely, and of Your Own Will': Cinematic Representations of Post-Socialist Transnational Journeys; Alice Mihaela Bardan PART II: CIRCULATION OF BODIES 6. Women's Resistance Strategies in a High-Tech Multicultural Europe; Ginette Verstraete 7. Videographies of Navigating Geobodies; Ursula Biemann 8. 'Affective Nationalism' and Transnational Postcommunist Lesbian Visual Activism; Anikó Imre 9. Long-Legged Girls and the Transnational Circuits of Vietnamese Popular Culture; Lan Duong PART III: MODALITIES OF FOREIGNNESS 10. Palatable Foreignness; Katarzyna Marciniak 11. Translating Silences: A Cinematic Encounter with Incommensurable Difference; Priya Jaikumar 12. The Abjection of Patriarchy: Ibolya Fekete's Chico and the Transnational Feminist Imaginary; Marguerite Waller

Über Autor(innen)

Anikó Imre is Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California, USA.