Women's Cinema: The Contested Screen

by Alison Butler

Overview

Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within. Using canonical directors and less established names, ranging from Chantal Akerman to Moufida Tlatli, as examples, Butler argues that women's cinema is unified in spite of its diversity by the ways in which it reworks cinematic conventions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231851350
Publisher:	WallFlower Press
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Series:	Short Cuts
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Alison Butler is lecturer in film studies at the University of Reading, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: From Counter-Cinema to Minor Cinema
Girls' Own Stories: Genre and Gender in Hollywood Cinema
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription in Women's Experimental Cinema
Afterword: Women's Cinema/Transnational Cinema
The Politics of location and dislocation: Women's Cinema and Cultural Identity