Feminist Auteurs Reading Women's Films

Name: Feminist Auteurs Reading Women's Films
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ISBN: 9781904764694

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ISBN-13: 9781904764694

Edition: 2006

Authors: Geetha Ramanathan

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Feminist Auteurs examines a rich and diverse body of work that has received insufficient attention both in film studies and in feminist theory on film. Looking at individual films within the context of feminist film as a genre, Ramanathan examines film from diverse cultural traditions, while paying close attention to what might be regarded as feminist in different cultural contexts. The films chosen expand our ideas of feminism covering as they do film from Africa, Latin America, Europe, Asia and the US. Full-length interpretations of twenty-four films, both older and contemporary, including Vagabond, India Song, Bhaji on the Beach, Chocolat, and Daughters of the Dust lay out a complete and…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Publication date: 1/2/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Geetha Ramanathan is professor of Comparative Literature and Women's Studies at West Chester University. She is the author of Sexual Politics and the Male Playwright: The Portrayal of Women in Ten Contemporary Plays(1995) and Issues of Representation in Feminist Film(forthcoming).



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Aesthetics and the Female Subject


Working Girls



Parama



A Very Curious Girl



Vagabond




Black/White Looking Power


Illusions



The Watermelon Woman



Chocolat



India Song



Bhaji on the Beach




Genre Covers


Daughters of the Dust



La nouba des femmes du Mont-Chenoua



Sambizanga



Flame




Aural Subjectivities


Danzon



Angel of Fire



The Silences of the Palace



Sati




Desire and Female Subjectivity


The Smiling Madame Beudet



Hour of the Star



Losing Ground




Feminist Narrative Aesthetics


Malou



Antonia's Line



Phaniyamma



Madchen in Uniform



Afterword


Notes


Index