
Disruptive Feminisms
Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster(Author)
Palgrave Pivot (Publisher)
Published on 19. November 2015
Book
Hardback
VI, 108 pages
978-1-137-59767-0 (ISBN)
Description
Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist, Gwendolyn Foster showcases their ability to disrupt and effectively challenge everything from class and racism, as well as sexism, ageism, and homophobia.
Reviews / Votes
"I think Disruptive Feminists is superior in many ways, just simply a jewel. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's peculiar and enchanting magic is to blend keen socio-critical attention with an unyielding poetic sensitivity to the world of hints, provocations, resonances, and allusions. Through the films examined here, and through Foster's eyes, gender, class, and race fly beyond rhetoric and come alive." - Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, USA and author of The Eyes Have It: Cinema and The Reality Effect "This book passionately advocates a cinema that challenges injustice and oppression across the globe by disrupting 'normative values' and 'received notions' of race and class as well as gender. Not least of the book's strengths is its illumination of culturally and aesthetically diverse works ranging from Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux (2012) and Claire Denis' No Fear, No Die (1990) to Betty White's television programs of the 1950s." - Ira Jaffe, Professor Emeritus, Former Chair, Department of Cinematic Arts, University of New Mexico, USAMore details
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VI, 108 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
275 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-59767-0 (9781137597670)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-59547-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Book
12/2016
Palgrave MacMillan
€42.79
The article will not be published

E-Book
11/2015
Palgrave MacMillan
€52.99
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Person
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Willa Cather Chair in English and Film in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
Content
Introduction 1. Feminist Disruptions in Postcolonial Film 2. Queering Repression and Gender Codes 3. Malignant Narcissism and the Toxic Family 4. Embracing Mature Female Eroticism