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9781623565817

The Body and the Screen Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema

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    9781623565817

  • ISBN10:

    1623565812

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2017-01-12
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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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 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.

Author Biography

Dr Kate Ince, Reader in French Film and Gender Studies, Univ. of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction I: female subjectivity in theoryand criticism
Chapter 2: Introduction II: feminist film theory afterpsychoanalysis
Chapter 3: Body - Key films Romance, The Gleaners and I, The Beaches of Agnes, FishTank
Chapter 4: Look - Key films Wasp,Orlando, The Tango Lesson, BriefCrossing
Chapter 5: Speech- Key films Nocturnal Uproar, Romance, Brief Crossing, Mrs Dalloway
Chapter 6: Performance- Key films No Sex Last Night, The Tango Lesson, Why (Not) Brazil? My Little Princess
Chapter 7. Desire - Key films Sex Is Comedy, Morvern Callar, Fish Tank,White Material
Chapter 8. Freedom - Key films Romance, Vendredi soir, Brief Crossing

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