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Affirmative aesthetics and wilful women : gender, space and mobility in contemporary cinema

Title: Affirmative aesthetics and wilful women : gender, space and mobility in contemporary cinema / Maud Ceuterick.
Author: Ceuterick, Maud
Publication: Cham ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

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186 pages : illustrations (black and white); 21 cm

Summary

While the idea of women who stay at home and men who dominate the streets may seem outdated, binary considerations of gender, space, and power still proliferate in contemporary cinema. This open access book adopts a fluid approach to space designed to accommodate wilful, affirmative, and imaginative perspectives of gender on screen. Through close analysis, or micro-analysis, of Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979), Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book looks for light, textures, rhythms, movement, and sound that give shape to affirmative forms, forms that contribute to rewriting bodies and spaces--such as cars, homes, and city streets--that reject traditional gender and power structures. Wilful women drive this book forward, through movement and pauses, imagination and desire, persistence and dissimulation, eroticism, performance and abjection.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Affirmative ethics, wilfulness, and affects as forms -- 2. Urban wanderer and wilful performances: Head-on (Gegen die wand) -- 3. Housing wilfulness: Wadjda -- 4. Lived body, affects and cars: Friday night (Vendredi soir) -- 5. Conclusion: Affirmative aesthetics.

Call Number

MFL 21-1181

ISBN

9783030370381
3030370380
9783030370398 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1197737985

Author

Ceuterick, Maud, author.

Title

Affirmative aesthetics and wilful women : gender, space and mobility in contemporary cinema / Maud Ceuterick.

Publisher

Cham ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030370398

Research Call Number

MFL 21-1181

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