Women Filmakers - Refocusing

Zusatztext "Refocusing is an important collection of essays and ideas! one that teaches as well as inspires." -- Journal of Film and Video"This is a great book. I'm sure that anyone who teaches women's cinema has felt the need for a book that brings the discussion of feminist theory up to date with current film practices." -- Mary Alemany-Galway Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, Valerie Raoul Klappentext This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital to understanding the relationship of women to the art and business of filmmaking. Zusammenfassung What difference does it make when a woman wields the camera? Has the gender issue been eclipsed by questions of race and class? Does feminist theory still make a contribution to practice? This book brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed since the early 1980s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Part 1: Women Filmmakers: Refocu, Part 2: Close-up on the Life and Works of Auteures from Europe, Part 3: Women in the Mainstrearn: Using Popular Genres In Europe, Part 4: Focus on Conditions of Production: Training, Funding, Distribution, Part 5: Women's Films through a Postcolonial Lens, Part 6: National and Cultural Montages: Crossing Boundaries, Part 7: Representations of and by Minority Women, Part 8: Revisioning Gender and Diversity in Canada, Selected Film Sources, Select Bibliography, About the Editors, Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: , Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, V. Raoul
• Con la collaborazione di: Jacqueline Levitin (Editore), Levitin Jacqueline (Editore), Judith Plessis (Editore), Plessis Judith (Editore), Valerie Raoul (Editore), Raoul Valerie (Editore)
• Editore: Routledge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.09.2003
• EAN: 9780415967822
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96782-2
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 227 mm x 27 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Fotografia, cinematografia, video, TV; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, Regional Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Film, TV and Radio industries, Cinema Industry