Women's Cinema: The Contested Screen

Women's Cinema: The Contested Screen
ISBN-10
0231851359
ISBN-13
9780231851350
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
115
Language
English
Published
2019-07-25
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Alison Butler

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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