Film and Female Consciousness [electronic resource] : Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women /
Bolton, L.author.
Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works with well-known and influential films that offer more familiar treatments of female subjectivity: Klute (1971), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Marnie (1964). Considering each of the older, celebrated films alongside the recent, unconventional works illustrates how contemporary filmmaking techniques and critical practices can work together to create provocative depictions of on-screen female consciousness. Bolton's approach demonstrates how the encounter between the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and cinema can yield a fuller understanding of the fundamental relationship between film and philosophy. Furthermore, the book explores the implications of this approach for filmmakers and spectators, and suggests Irigarayan models of authorship and spectatorship that reinvigorate the notion of women's cinema.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
Introduction -- 'Frozen in showcases' : feminist film theory and the abstraction of woman -- The camera as an Irigarayan speculum -- In the cut : self-endangerment or subjective strength? -- Lost in translation : the potential of becoming -- Morvern Callar : in a sensory wonderland -- Architects of beauty and the crypts of our bodies : implications for filmmaking and spectatorship -- Concluding remarks : the object is speaking.
Film and Female Consciousness analyses three contemporary films that offer complex and original representations of women's thoughtfulness and individuality: In the Cut (2003), Lost in Translation (2003) and Morvern Callar (2002). Lucy Bolton compares these recent works with well-known and influential films that offer more familiar treatments of female subjectivity: Klute (1971), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Marnie (1964). Considering each of the older, celebrated films alongside the recent, unconventional works illustrates how contemporary filmmaking techniques and critical practices can work together to create provocative depictions of on-screen female consciousness. Bolton's approach demonstrates how the encounter between the philosophy of Luce Irigaray and cinema can yield a fuller understanding of the fundamental relationship between film and philosophy. Furthermore, the book explores the implications of this approach for filmmakers and spectators, and suggests Irigarayan models of authorship and spectatorship that reinvigorate the notion of women's cinema.
Irigaray, Luce
Motion pictures—History.
Sociology.
Motion pictures and television.
Feminist theory.
Communication.
Philosophy.
Film History.
Gender Studies.
Screen Studies.
Feminism.
Media Studies.
Popular Science in Philosophy.