Search Results for feminist film studies

... in a circumscribed arena in which women's film is allowed to speak about women but not about film. More specifically, The Watermelon Woman both presents and represents the negotiations, mediations, and tensions triangulated among dominant film history, white feminist film studies and production, and black film...

... nurturing and finite. As the article shows, the emerging field of asexuality studies offers a rich ground for intersectional feminist film studies and ongoing scholarship on the romantic comedy genre. In all of the above cases, you would be, for the most part, wrong about Together Together (dir. Nikole...

.... The relationship of the project to the development of feminist film studies, the production conditions for women's filmmaking in Latin America, the contemporary climate for distribution and exhibition in New York City (along with public funding structures), and the cultivation of new Latina/Latino audiences in New...

... as feminism, French theory and film studies seem to have intersected at the point of readership/spectatorship, spectatorship was theorized in film studies-including feminist film studies- in’ a some- what peculiar and distinct way. The identification of the “reader’’ as a point of emphasis...

... national identity and feminist film studies in general? In the Canadian context these relationships, their exploration and theorization, are compounded by Canada’s status as a colonial nation - colonized lit- erally in terms of its historical and judicial relationship to Britain and more...

... studies scholarship that orbit around Afro-pessimist theories of Black ontology and social death. Through their expressions of Afrocentric feminist forms of communal, caring, and creative living, the films represent a form of Black social life that expresses value systems and ways of being...

...Jon Heggestad Abstract The 1994 film Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the world's first pregnant man, has been the subject of much scholarly debate since its initial release. Specifically, feminist critiques have both called attention to the film's androcentric...

... study for considering women’s filmmaking in neoliberal times because of its centrality to the development of feminist film theory at an earlier historical moment in the 1970s. Reframing the history of the West German feminist film movement, the introduction considers the unfolding of new practices...

... texts. The fusion of history and theory that feminist film studies potentially offers can only have an activist component, she argues, when the cinema is recognized as operating within “larger spheres of cultural power.” Moving beyond models of authorship to under- stand how power and agency...

... project of which they were a part. The article develops a notion of performing essentialism through which to understand the work of the films. Performativity and essentialism are critical terms that, within the fields of queer and feminist studies, are often understood as oppositional to each other. Yet...

... hindrance to reading the film.” Jane Feuer, “ Singin’ in the Rain : Winking at the Audience,” in Film Analysis: A Norton Reader , ed. Jeffrey Geiger and R. L. Rutsky (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 496. 9. See Miranda Banks, “Production Studies,” Feminist Media Histories 4, no. 2 (2018): 159...

...Kathleen McHugh Abstract This article rereads Lee Chang‐dong's 2002 film Oasis (South Korea) from a feminist disability media studies perspective. It begins with Lee's recent revelation that his sister's lived experience inspired its narrative. That inspiration, inflected by regional (South Korean...

... and presuppositions derive. Film Studies Program University of Pittsburgh Carol Flinn Although I’m in the early years of my first academic job, I’ve been working in feminist film studies for close to ten years and have con...

... women’s roles in many media industries, we may recapture a world history that recognizes cultural imperialism and hegemony, but avoids a binary divide between a first world and everyone else. (2) Another direction in feminist film studies involves the wedding of social history with theories...

... Deleuze and Guattari articulate them. 154  •  Camera Obscura To secure these claims, I first outline howIllusions operates as a metacritical study of the close-up­ in itself and as a unit of mon- tage. Second, I highlight lesbian traces in the film, in tandem with recent scholarly...

... was attracted to works traditionally “assigned” to women. When I first became interested in academic film studies, I entered the field with a pre-feminist consciousness. I approached film history in a manner consonant with my previous work in literature: accepting the male canon, wondering why so...

...Rosalind Galt This article contends that film studies has consistently denigrated “pretty” images: those that emphasize detailed composition, excess color, or decorative style. While the term deliberately invokes the triviality of “pretty pictures,” the article questions this taken-for-granted...

..., remnants of the lavender scare, the burgeoning feminist movement, and the changing status of white- ness in postwar America. To explore these themes, I introduce the analytic of the “buzz” as a way of reading in and out of the film. The motif of buzz- ing connects Holly Golightly and Mr...

... and scholars committed to the analysis of contemporary culture, we find ourselves dealing with a great many troubling texts. Feminist film studies is only beginning the process of formulating, in Angela McRobbie’s words, “a more developed conceptual schema to account for the simultaneous...

... of California, Santa Barbara, with a PhD in film and media studies and an emphasis in feminist studies. Their work on technology, sexuality, feminism, and film theory has appeared in Porn Studies, New Review of Film and Media Studies, Mediascape, Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games...