Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2015

Feminisms

Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures

Edited by: Anna Backman Rogers and Laura Mulvey

Volume 5 in the series The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048523634

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About this book

This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for scholars of both film and feminism.

Author / Editor information

Backman Rogers Anna :

Anna Backman Rogers is senior lecturer in film studies at Gothenburg University in Sweden.Mulvey Laura :

Laura Mulvey is the author of Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. She was professor in film and media theory at Birkbeck College, University of London, and director of the Birbeck Institute for the Moving Image.

Reviews

"Forty years after "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Mulvey and Backman Rogers's Feminisms demonstrates the rich, diverse, and lasting legacy of feminist film studies. From female agencies in television series to digitized heroines in film to the aging female star, Feminisms combines compelling analyses of contemporary images of women and their narratives with insightful reflections and interviews on the developments and differentiation in the history, theory, and practice of women and film and in the larger field of media studies. It is not only a pleasure to read but also an indispensable book for generations of emancipated (film and media) scholars to come.." - Patricia Pisters, professor of film studies at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

" [...] most striking of all, Ÿfeminist film theoryŒ turns out to be, not a relic of the 1970s, nor a notion of the cinema as a singular entity, but rather a wide-ranging exploration of what the cinema has been and what itmight be in the future." - Judith Mayne in Film Quarterly

"A welcome, and perhaps necessary, return to feminist debates in film studies after a seeming dormancy in the so-called post-feminist era of the 1990s and 2000s." - Maria Walsh, Moving Image Review & Art Journal MIRAJ

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Editorial Open Access Download PDF	9
Preface Open Access Download PDF	10
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	15
Introduction: 1970s Feminist Film Theory and the Obsolescent Object Laura Mulvey Open Access Download PDF	17
PART I New Perspectives: Images and the Female Body
Disconnected Heroines, Icy Intelligence: Reframing Feminism(s) and Feminist Identities at the Borders Involving the Isolated Female TV Detective in Scandinavian-Noir Janet McCabe Open Access Download PDF	29
Lena Dunham’s Girls: Can-Do Girls, Feminist Killjoys, and Women Who Make Bad Choices Anna Backman Rogers Open Access Download PDF	44
Destroy Visual Pleasure: Cinema, Attention, and the Digital Female Body (Or, Angelina Jolie Is a Cyborg) William Brown Open Access Download PDF	54
The Intertextual Stardom of Iris: Winslet, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer’s Disease Lucy Bolton Open Access Download PDF	65
PART II Theory in Contemporary Contexts
Imagining Safe Space in Feminist Pornography Ingrid Ryberg Open Access Download PDF	79
Uncommon Sensuality: New Queer Feminist Film/Theory Sophie Mayer Open Access Download PDF	86
The Promise of Touch: Turns to Affect in Feminist Film Theory Anu Koivunen Open Access Download PDF	97
Sound and Feminist Modernity in Black Women’s Film Narratives Geetha Ramanathan Open Access Download PDF	111
PART III History and Practice
The “New” Experimentalism? Women In/And/On Film Jenny Chamarette Open Access Download PDF	125
Conditions of Activism: Feminist Film Activism and the Legacy of the Second Wave Leshu Torchin Open Access Download PDF	141
US Independent Women’s Cinema, Sundance Girls, and Identity Politics Veronica Pravadelli Open Access Download PDF	149
PART IV Contextualizing History: New Frontiers in Feminist Journals
Suddenly, One Summer: Frauen und Film since 1974 Annette Brauerhoch Open Access Download PDF	161
(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White and Sharon Willis Open Access Download PDF	169
PART V Discussions: Dialoguing Difference and Extremity in Contemporary Cinemas
Film, Corporeality, Transgressive Cinema: A Feminist Perspective Martine Beugnet and Laura Mulvey Open Access Download PDF	187
Disconnection Notices: Interview with Miranda July Miranda July and Anna Backman Rogers Open Access Download PDF	203
Notes Open Access Download PDF	209
General Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	239
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	259
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	265
Index of Film Titles Open Access Download PDF	273

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 276
Illustrations
- Other: 10 halftones
Keywords: Feminist theory; history; new phenomena; feminist filmmaking.

eBook

Published: May 18, 2015
ISBN: 9789048523634