Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures
edited by Anna Backman Rogers and Laura Mulvey
Amsterdam University Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-90-485-2363-4 | Paper: 978-90-8964-676-7 Library of Congress Classification PN1995.9.W6F454 2015
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for scholars of both film and feminism.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Laura Mulvey is the author of Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. She was professor in film and media theory at Birkbeck College, University of London, and director of the Birbeck Institute for the Moving Image.Anna Backman Rogers is senior lecturer in film studies at Gothenburg University in Sweden.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ContentsEditorialAcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Written by Laura and Anna. (2000 words)Section One: OverviewHistory of the debate (early phase). Laura Mulvey (4000 words)History of Frauen und Film (2000 words) Heide Schlupman or Gertrude Koch.History of Camera Obscura (2000 words) Patricia WhiteSection Two: ArticlesNarrative and the female Protagonist (The Killing) (6000 words) Janet McCabeFeminist Film Theory: new developments (6000 words) Anu KoivunenFeminist Film Theory: Lacanian phase (6000 words) Martin LefebvreSpectacle and Consumerism: from Girls to The Bling Ring (6000 words) Anna Backman RogersNew Experimentalism (6000 words) Jenny ChamaretteDigital Female: Film Franchise (6000 words) William BrownSection Three: Key FilmmakersAgnes Varda (3000 words) Kate InceBrazilian filmmaker (3000 words) Lucia NagibKorean / Chinese filmmaker (3000 words) Turkish (3000 words) Iranian filmmakerIndian filmmakerKathryn Bigelow (3000 words) Yvonne TaskerSection Four: Case StudiesPornography (3000 words): Ingrid RybergAging + Celebrity (3000 words): Industry (3000 words) Hannah McGill + Mark Cousins dialogueActivism: Section Five: DialogueLaura Mulvey and Martine Beugnet in conversation: de-materialisation of the female body. (6000 words)NotesGeneral BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex of NamesIndex of Film TitlesIndex of Subjects
Feminisms: Diversity, Difference and Multiplicity in Contemporary Film Cultures
edited by Anna Backman Rogers and Laura Mulvey
Amsterdam University Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-90-485-2363-4 Paper: 978-90-8964-676-7
This collection brings together an exciting group of established and emerging scholars to consider the history of feminist film theory and new developments in the field and in film culture itself. Opening the field up to urgent questions and covering such topics as new experimental film, the digital image, consumerism, activism, and pornography, Feminisms will be essential reading for scholars of both film and feminism.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Laura Mulvey is the author of Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. She was professor in film and media theory at Birkbeck College, University of London, and director of the Birbeck Institute for the Moving Image.Anna Backman Rogers is senior lecturer in film studies at Gothenburg University in Sweden.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ContentsEditorialAcknowledgmentsIntroduction:Written by Laura and Anna. (2000 words)Section One: OverviewHistory of the debate (early phase). Laura Mulvey (4000 words)History of Frauen und Film (2000 words) Heide Schlupman or Gertrude Koch.History of Camera Obscura (2000 words) Patricia WhiteSection Two: ArticlesNarrative and the female Protagonist (The Killing) (6000 words) Janet McCabeFeminist Film Theory: new developments (6000 words) Anu KoivunenFeminist Film Theory: Lacanian phase (6000 words) Martin LefebvreSpectacle and Consumerism: from Girls to The Bling Ring (6000 words) Anna Backman RogersNew Experimentalism (6000 words) Jenny ChamaretteDigital Female: Film Franchise (6000 words) William BrownSection Three: Key FilmmakersAgnes Varda (3000 words) Kate InceBrazilian filmmaker (3000 words) Lucia NagibKorean / Chinese filmmaker (3000 words) Turkish (3000 words) Iranian filmmakerIndian filmmakerKathryn Bigelow (3000 words) Yvonne TaskerSection Four: Case StudiesPornography (3000 words): Ingrid RybergAging + Celebrity (3000 words): Industry (3000 words) Hannah McGill + Mark Cousins dialogueActivism: Section Five: DialogueLaura Mulvey and Martine Beugnet in conversation: de-materialisation of the female body. (6000 words)NotesGeneral BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex of NamesIndex of Film TitlesIndex of Subjects