Provocation in Women's Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema

Critics regularly use the term "provocateur" to describe controversial film directors. Although most individuals who attract this term are men, there is a long and largely unexamined history of female auteurs who shock and unsettle their viewers. Provocation in Women’s Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema investigates how women directors participate in the tradition of provocative art cinema. Focusing on the post—millennium films of auteurs such as Lisa Aschan, Catherine Breillat, Jennifer...