Women's Cinema, World Cinema

Projecting Contemporary Feminisms

Patricia White

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9780822376019
• Subtopic: Film History & Criticism

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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgment
• Introduction
• 1. To Each Her Own Cinema. World Cinema and the Woman Cineaste
• 2. Framing Feminisms. Women’s Cinema as Art Cinema
• 3. Feminist Film in the Age of the Chick Flick. Global Flows of Women’s Cinema
• 4. Network Narratives. Asian Women Directors
• 5. Is the Whole World Watching? Fictions of Women’s Human Rights
• Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Filmography
• Index