
Greta Gerwig
Filmmaker
Suzanne Ferriss(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Will be published approx. on 31. March 2026
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-3995-5349-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book to consider Gerwig as a writer-director. It argues that her three feature films to date-Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019) and Barbie (2023)-engage with debates about feminism and femininity through cinematic aesthetics. Her films are linked by heightened attention to material culture-through costume, production and set design. They meticulously recreate imagined worlds that resonate with viewers in the present for what they have to say about identity and relationships in contemporary culture, particularly how our lives, especially those of women, are fashioned through clothing, decor and architecture. They feature women who rebel by fashioning independent lives as fabricators-those who shape their worlds rather than being shaped by them. Considered together, Gerwig's three features form a developing oeuvre tracing the contours of feminist refashioning.
Reviews / Votes
Ferriss's book will become the benchmark for studies of Gerwig's oeuvre. Written with characteristic clarity and brio, this study is as entertaining to read as it is informative and eloquent. I am certain this book will be indispensible not only to those studying and writing on Gerwig, but also to those working within feminist film and media studies as well. Highly recommended. * Anna Backman Rogers, Professor of Aesthetics, Culture and Feminist Theory, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
ELT/ESL
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
30 black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-5349-0 (9781399553490)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Suzanne Ferriss is an emeritus professor at Nova Southeastern University. Her publications include two volumes on the cultural study of fashion, On Fashion and Footnotes: On Shoes, and two companion volumes on "chick culture": Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction and Chick Flicks: Contemporary Women at the Movies. In addition to editing The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola, she is the author of The Cinema of Sofia Coppola: Fashion, Culture, Celebrity and the BFI Film Classics volume on Lost in Translation.
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: fashion, self-fashioning, fabrication
1. Self-fashioning
2.Fabricated lives
3. Crafting change
4. Refashioning culture
Conclusion: Greta Gerwig, Filmmaker
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: fashion, self-fashioning, fabrication
1. Self-fashioning
2.Fabricated lives
3. Crafting change
4. Refashioning culture
Conclusion: Greta Gerwig, Filmmaker
Bibliography
Filmography
Index