TY  - DATA
AU  - Ince, Kate,
TI  - The body and the screen: female subjectivity in contemporary women's cinema 
SN  - 9781501396519
U1  - 791.43/6522 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Feminism and motion pictures
KW  - France
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Feminist films
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Women in motion pictures
KW  - Women motion picture producers and directors
KW  - Individual film directors, film-makers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index; Includes filmography; Electronic reproduction; London; Bloomsbury Publishing; 2017; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement
N2  - "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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501396519?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -