Index of names and titles. Jeremi Szaniawski. Notes on contributors -- Elena Gorfinkel -- "And it's so tiring": Chantal Akerman's ruminative economy / Ivone Margulies -- When to speak and when to be quiet: the act of waiting and the loneliness of bodies in Maria Ramos's films / Andréa França -- Social realism, melodrama, and the mute text: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's "The May lady" and "Under the skin of the city" / Laura Mulvey. Part 2 Collective voice and documentary poetics : Documentary poetics as a field of action: Cecilia Mangini's "Essere donne" / Noa Steimatsky -- On talking heads and "Las muertes chiquitas / Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky -- Agnès Varda and "Ydessa": engaging personal and cultural histories / Rebecca J. DeRoo -- Peace and love, true false: Agnès Varda in Los Angeles / Jean Ma. Part 3 Embodied configurations: material and self-inscription : She carries the film on her naked body: environmental and embodied debt in Claire Denis's "Bastards" / Katrin Pesch -- Ornaments and sites of self-suspension: Hito Steyerl's multimedial essayism / Nora Gortcheva -- Female material: "Invisible adversaries" and the intermedial / Jennifer Stob -- "Dedicated to the one I love": authorship and adaptation in Lynne Ramsay's "Morvern Callar" / Michael Cramer. Part 4 Subjectivities across local, national, and neoliberal logics : She, a Chinese director? Xiaolu Guo and transnational feminist authorship / Patricia White -- Floating light and shadows: Huang Yu-shan's chronicles of modern Taiwan / Zhen Zhang -- On death and dying: Małgorzata Szumowska between Poland and self / Izabela Kalinowska. Part 5 Women's imaginaries, same-sex worlds : Soft fictions / Rebekah Rutkoff -- Perverse angle: feminist film, queer film, shame / Liza Johnson -- Thinking like a holy girl: a philosophy of Grandma's bedroom / Karen Redrobe -- "Once upon her time?": the cinema of Valérie Massadian, or, living and creating at the periphery of patriarchy / Jeremi Szaniawski. Notes on contributors -- Index of names and titles.
Summary:
Looks at contemporary and classic films from emerging and established makers such as Maria Augusta Ramos, Xiaolu Guo, Valérie Massadian, Lynne Ramsay, Lucrecia Martel, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Chantal Akerman, or Claire Denis. The collection is also tuned to the continued provocation of feminist cinema landmarks such as Chick Strand's Soft Fiction; Barbara Loden's Wanda; Valie Export's Invisible Adversaries, Cecilia Mangini's Essere donne. Attentive to minor moments, to the pauses and the charge and forms bodies adopt through cinema, the contributors suggest the capacity of women's films to embrace, shape and question the world.
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