Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices [electronic resource] /
Tay, S.author.
Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Revised Women's Cinema Through Lynn Hershmann-Leeson's Cyberfeminist Interventions; 1 On the Edges of the Authorial Voice: Liv Ullmann's Faithless, Gendered Authorship, and Ingmar Bergman; 2 On the Edges of the Documentary: Jill Craigie's Political and Aesthetic Sensibilities; 3 On the Edges of Ethnography: Kim Longinotto's Institution of Feminist Discourses; 4 On the Edges of Art Cinema: Sally Potter and the Feminist Response; 5 On the Edges of Post-Colonialism: Deepa Mehta and Transnational Cinema
6 On the Edges of National Cinema: Sofia Coppola and Female Authorship7 On the Edges of Geopolitics: Sexual Difference in Ursula Biemann's Video Essays; Conclusion: Vignettes of a New Feminist Politique: Gisela Sanders Alcántara, Guo Xiaolu, Christina McPhee, Liz Miller; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures-Production and direction.
Communication.
Intellectual life-History.
Feminist theory.
Sociology.
Screen Studies.
Directing.
Media Studies.
Intellectual Studies.
Feminism.
Gender Studies.