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Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms
In Women’s Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. The emergence of a globalized network of film festivals has enabled these young directors to make and circulate films that are changing the aesthetics and politics of art house cinema and challenging feminist genealogies. Extending formal analysis to the production and reception contexts of a variety of feature films, White explores how women filmmakers are both implicated in and critique gendered concepts of authorship, taste, genre, national identity, and human rights. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema revitalizes feminist film studies as it argues for an alternative vision of global media culture.
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Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms
In Women’s Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. The emergence of a globalized network of film festivals has enabled these young directors to make and circulate films that are changing the aesthetics and politics of art house cinema and challenging feminist genealogies. Extending formal analysis to the production and reception contexts of a variety of feature films, White explores how women filmmakers are both implicated in and critique gendered concepts of authorship, taste, genre, national identity, and human rights. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema revitalizes feminist film studies as it argues for an alternative vision of global media culture.
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Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms
In Women’s Cinema, World Cinema, Patricia White explores the dynamic intersection of feminism and film in the twenty-first century by highlighting the work of a new generation of women directors from around the world: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf, Nadine Labaki, Zero Chou, Jasmila Zbanic, and Claudia Llosa, among others. The emergence of a globalized network of film festivals has enabled these young directors to make and circulate films that are changing the aesthetics and politics of art house cinema and challenging feminist genealogies. Extending formal analysis to the production and reception contexts of a variety of feature films, White explores how women filmmakers are both implicated in and critique gendered concepts of authorship, taste, genre, national identity, and human rights. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema revitalizes feminist film studies as it argues for an alternative vision of global media culture.
Patricia White is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability, coauthor of The Film Experience, and coeditor of Critical Visions in Film Theory. She has worked extensively with Women Make Movies and the journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. To Each Her Own Cinema. World Cinema and the Woman Cineaste 29
Jane Campion's Cannes Connections 30
Lucrecia Martel's Vertiginous Authorship 44
Samira Makhmalbaf's Sororal Cinema 56
2. Framing Feminisms. Women's Cinema as Art Cinema 68
Deepa Mehta's Elemental Feminism 76
Iranian Diasporan Women Directors and Cultural Capital 88
3. Feminist Film in the Age of the Chick Flick. Global Flows of Women's Cinema 104
Engendering New Korean Cinema in Jeong Jae-eun's Take Care of My Cat 108
Nadine Labaki's Celebrity 120
4. Network Narratives. Asian Women Directors 132
Two-Timing the System in Nia Dinata's Love for Share 136
Zero Chou and the Spaces of Chinese Lesbian Film 142
5. Is the Whole World Watching? Fictions of Women's Human Rights 169
Sabiha Sumar's Democratic Cinema 175
Jasmila Žbanic's Grbavica and Balkan Cinema's Incommensurable Gazes 181
New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut - B. Ruby Rich
"Women's Cinema, World Cinema is an exciting book for the connections that Patricia White expertly draws and explicates between text and context, auteur and society, national and global. Her knowledge of the particularities of individual directors and national cinemas is remarkable, as is her familiarity with their relevant histories and critical literatures. Women's Cinema, World Cinema is a major work that will transform how these films and filmmakers are viewed and studied."
Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture - Judith Mayne
"Women's Cinema, World Cinema is the first book to offer a truly broad—dare I say global—perspective on the practices of feminist filmmaking as they have developed in the twenty-first century. Its balance of breadth and specificity makes it unique, and one of its strengths is Patricia White's willingness to step out of the narrow confines that have for too long shaped various constituencies in film studies. Women's Cinema, World Cinema provides exactly the context and the theoretical questioning that film studies needs."
