
Women's Cinema
The Contested Screen
Alison Butler(Author)
Wallflower Press
Published on 15. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-903364-27-7 (ISBN)
Description
Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within. Using canonical directors and less established names, ranging from Chantal Akerman to Moufida Tlatli, as examples, Butler argues that women's cinema is unified in spite of its diversity by the ways in which it reworks cinematic conventions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-903364-27-7 (9781903364277)
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E-Book
07/2019
WallFlower Press
€20.49
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Person
Alison Butler is lecturer in film studies at the University of Reading, UK.
Content
Introduction: From Counter-Cinema to Minor Cinema
Girls' Own Stories: Genre and Gender in Hollywood Cinema
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription in Women's Experimental Cinema
Afterword: Women's Cinema/Transnational Cinema
The Politics of location and dislocation: Women's Cinema and Cultural Identity
Girls' Own Stories: Genre and Gender in Hollywood Cinema
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription in Women's Experimental Cinema
Afterword: Women's Cinema/Transnational Cinema
The Politics of location and dislocation: Women's Cinema and Cultural Identity