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020 _a9781501396519
020 _z9781623562922 (hardback)
020 _z9781623565206 (electronic book)
020 _z9781623565817 (paperback)
020 _z9781623566265 (PDF)
041 _aeng
082 _a791.43/6522
_223
100 _aInce, Kate,
_eauthor.
_918753
245 _aThe body and the screen :
_bfemale subjectivity in contemporary women's cinema /
_cKate Ince.
260 _aNew York ;
_aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Academic,
_c2017.
300 _a1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) :
_billustrations.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
504 _aIncludes filmography.
520 _a"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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bLondon :
_cBloomsbury Publishing,
_d2017
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess limited by licensing agreement.
650 _aFeminism and motion pictures
_zFrance.
_918754
650 _aFeminism and motion pictures
_zGreat Britain.
_918755
650 _aFeminist films
_zFrance
_xHistory and criticism.
_918756
650 _aFeminist films
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory and criticism.
_918757
650 _aMotion pictures
_zFrance
_xHistory and criticism.
_918758
650 _aMotion pictures
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory and criticism.
_918759
650 _aWomen in motion pictures.
_918760
650 _aWomen motion picture producers and directors
_zFrance.
_918761
650 _aWomen motion picture producers and directors
_zGreat Britain.
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650 _2Individual film directors, film-makers
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9781501396519?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942 _cEBK
999 _c13349
_d13349