The body and the screen : female subjectivity in contemporary women's cinema /
Ince, Kate,
The body and the screen : female subjectivity in contemporary women's cinema / Kate Ince. - New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. - 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. Includes filmography.
"Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature film. This new volume in the "Thinking Cinema" series draws on feminist philosophers and theorists from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities. Mainstream entertainment cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women, objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency, and avoiding the most important questions about how cinema can "do justice" to female subjectivity. Kate Ince suggests that the films of independent women directors are progressively redressing the balance, reinvigorating both the narratives and the formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist philosophers to interpret such films as Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank anew, suggesting that a philosophical understanding of female subjectivity as embodied and ethical should underpin future feminist film study."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Electronic reproduction.
London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2017
Available via World Wide Web.
Access limited by licensing agreement.
9781501396519
Feminism and motion pictures--France.
Feminism and motion pictures--Great Britain.
Feminist films--History and criticism.--France
Feminist films--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--France
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Women in motion pictures.
Women motion picture producers and directors--France.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain.
791.43/6522
The body and the screen : female subjectivity in contemporary women's cinema / Kate Ince. - New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. - 1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. Includes filmography.
"Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining international renown, while British directors Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold have forged award-winning careers in feature film. This new volume in the "Thinking Cinema" series draws on feminist philosophers and theorists from Simone de Beauvoir on to offer readings of a range of the most important and memorable of these films from the 1990s and 2000s, focusing as it does so on how the films convey women's lives and identities. Mainstream entertainment cinema traditionally distorts the representation of women, objectifying their bodies, minimizing their agency, and avoiding the most important questions about how cinema can "do justice" to female subjectivity. Kate Ince suggests that the films of independent women directors are progressively redressing the balance, reinvigorating both the narratives and the formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist philosophers to interpret such films as Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank anew, suggesting that a philosophical understanding of female subjectivity as embodied and ethical should underpin future feminist film study."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Electronic reproduction.
London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2017
Available via World Wide Web.
Access limited by licensing agreement.
9781501396519
Feminism and motion pictures--France.
Feminism and motion pictures--Great Britain.
Feminist films--History and criticism.--France
Feminist films--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--France
Motion pictures--History and criticism.--Great Britain
Women in motion pictures.
Women motion picture producers and directors--France.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain.
791.43/6522