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The Body and the Screen - Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women's Cinema (Hardcover)
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The Body and the Screen - Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women's Cinema (Hardcover)
Series: Thinking Cinema
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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 Agnes 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 theorists and critics 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, and thereby reinvigorating both the narratives and the
formal ambitions of European cinema. Ince uses feminist
philosophers to cast a new veil over such films as Sex Is Comedy,
Morvern Callar, White Material, and Fish Tank; and includes a
timeline ofdevelopments in women's film-making and feminist film
theory from 1970 to 2011.
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