Feminist Visions (eBook, PDF)

Tracing Feminist Epistemologies in Contemporary Film and Television
Redaktion: Charlery, Hélène; Maury, Cristelle

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What does feminist filmmaking in the 21st century look like? This book assesses the influence of Western feminist theory on contemporary film and television - nearly fifty years after Claire Johnston and Laura Mulvey called for a feminist counter-cinema - highlighting the cross-fertilization between feminist film theory and practice.

Is there a #Metoo genre? Have traditional Hollywood genres been reframed? How has intersectional feminist film theory been explored on screen? In essays spanning film and television in a broad range of genres from the US, the UK and India, contributors renew definitions of feminist filmmaking since second wave feminist film scholars first grappled with the image of women in film and the role of women in the film industry. Feminist Visions provides an insightful space for discussion of feminist film theory as applied to recent TV series such as Devious Maids (2013-2016), Unbelievable (2019), Greenleaf (2016-2020), I May Destroy You (2020) and Insecure (2016-2021) and films including Maid in Manhattan (2002), Night Moves (2014), Gone Girl (2014), I Care a Lot (2020) and The Discreet Charm of the Savarnas (2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350417731
• Artikelnr.: 76129657

Autorenporträt

Cristelle Maury is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies at at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. She is co-editor of Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-feminist Era (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). Hélène Charlery is Associate Professor of American and Films Studies at Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France. She is co-editor of Erasure and Recollection. Memories of Racial Passing Within and Beyond the United States (2021). Her research focuses on the intersectional representations of Black female characters in American film and television series.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Defining Feminist filmmaking from the angle of reception
1.1.Janet Staiger, University of Texas at Austin, "Finding Feminist
Filmmaking"
1.2.Sheril Brenna, University of Cincinnati, "'He Doesn't Get to Win':
Gone Girl (2014), the Anti-Heroine, and Social Media Fandom"
1.3.Elizabeth Mullen, Université de Bretagne occidentale, "From Calculating
Cool Girl to Conniving Caregiver: Power, Privilege and the Monstrous
Feminine in I Care a Lot (2021)"
1.4. Samuel Fernández-Pichel "A Feminist Archive of Past Future Sounds:
Archiveology in Lisa Rovner's Sisters with Transistors (2020)"
1.5. Audrey Haensler, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, "Nothing but a
"woke façade"? Intersectional feminism in contemporary reboots of
female-centric TV shows".
2. Is There a #MeToo Genre?
2.1. Katrjin Bekers "The #Metoo Biopic: #Metoo Narratives in Recent Biopics
about Women Activists"
2.2. Delphine Letort, Le Mans University, "Unbelievable (2019): A feminist
tale of rape"
2.3. Arya Rani Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas "Sexual Assault and
the Eye of the Camera: An Investigation Into the Gaze in #MeToo Films"
2.4. Audrey Haensler, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, "Nothing but a
'woke façade'? Intersectional feminism in contemporary reboots of
female-centric TV shows Charmed (1998-2006) and Sex and the City
(1998-2004)"
3. Reframing traditional Hollywood Genres
3.1. Linda Badley "Feminist Film Theory and 21st-century Women's
Independent Horror Cinema"
3.2. Cristelle Maury "From the erotic male gaze to the surveilling gaze:
De-eroticizing and Politicizing the Noir Gaze in Kelly Reichardt's Night
Moves"
3.3. Kristine Chick "Subverting genres and reversing roles: how the female
artist and the child assassin demolish conventions and become the
patriarch's dangerous rivals in Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here
(2018)"
3.5. Hélène Machinal Université de Rennes 2 "Posthuman bodies and
Empowerment: reaching beyond dualism in Sci-fi TV series"
3.6. Kyra Clark, Massey University, and Lauren O'Mahony, Murdoch
University, "Stitching together feminism, genre and couture in The
Dressmaker (2015)"
4) Testing Intersectional feminist film theory
4.1. Sabine Elisabeth Aretz (KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt) "'Monstrous and
Shameless': Trauma, Agency, and Narrative (of) Empowerment in I May Destroy
You" (2020)
4.2. Mikaël Toulza "Black Feminism, Womanism, and Empowerment through
Religion in Greenleaf (OWN, 2016-2020)"
4.3 Emilie Cheyroux, Institut National Universitaire Champollion, Albi,
"The figure of the Latina maid in independent productions made by Latina
filmmakers: a counter-stereotypical and feminist approach"
4.4. Acharna Jakakumar "Indian Feminisms on Screen: Discreet Charm of
Savarna 'Feminism' and Social Justice via Dalit Feminism"
4.5. Anne Crémieux, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 "The Gaze is the
Message"