Research Catalog

Title

Female agencies and subjectivities in film and television / Diğdem Sezen, Feride Çiçekoğlu, Aslı Tunç, Ebru Thwaites Diken, editors.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

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Additional Authors

• Sezen, Digdem
• Çiçekoğlu, Feride
• Tunç, Aslı
• Thwaites Diken, Ebru

Description

xvii, 300 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"This volume is an exuberant account of the ways in which female agencies and subjectivities in visual culture have expanded and multiplied through digital technology and globalization. It is an invaluable contribution to contemporary discussions in film and television studies, as well as feminist theory and practice." -Süheyla Schroeder, Berlin International University of Applied Sciences, Germany This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In three sections, the book covers the films of women directors, television shows featuring women in lead roles, and the representational struggles of women in cultural context, with a special focus on changes in the transformative power of narratives and images across genres and platforms. This collection derives from the editors' multi-year experiences as scholars and practitioners in the field of film and television. It is an effort that aims to describe and understand female agencies and subjectivities across screen narratives, gather scholars from around the world to generate timely discussions, and inspire fellow researchers and practitioners of film and television. Diğdem Sezen is a lecturer at Teesside University, School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Department of Communications, Media and Arts, UK. She holds a Ph.D. from Istanbul University, Turkey. Feride Çiçekoğlu holds a Ph.D. in architecture from University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her stint in prison during the military junta of 1980 in Turkey was the inspiration for her first novella, which she later adapted to screen and used as a springboard to build a second academic career in film. Aslı Tunç is a professor of media studies and communication in the Department of Media at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in media and communications from Temple University, USA. Ebru Thwaites Diken is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Television at İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She holds a a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University, UK.

Subject

• Feminism and motion pictures
• Agent (Philosophy)
• Women in motion pictures
• Women in the motion picture industry
• Women on television
• Women in television broadcasting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Agnès Varda and the Singular Feminine -- 3. Female Agency in Pelin Esmer Films: The Play (2005) and Queen Lear (2019) -- 4. The Feminine Indistinction in Susanne Bier's Cinema: The Brothers (2005), In a Better World (2010), Bird Box (2019) -- 5. Consuming Bodies, Abject Spaces: Ana Lily Amirpour's Transcultural Expressionism -- 6. Claire Underwood: Feminist Warrior or Shakespearean Villain? Re-visiting Feminine Evil in House of Cards -- 7. The Phenomenology of Orphan Black as Molecular Politics -- 8. 'I will not be bullied into submission': Discussing subjection and resistance in GLOW (2017) -- 9. Female Body Language: Cutting, Scarring, and Becoming in HBO's Sharp Objects -- 10. The Strong Female Lead: Postfeminist Representation of Women and Femininity in Netflix Shows, Derya Özkan, Deborah Hardt -- 11. The Technological Turn of the Femme Fatale: The Fembot and Alternative Fates -- 12. Women Remembering: Gender and Genre in Persona and Happy Valley -- 13. Bridal anxieties: Politics of gender, neoconservatism and daytime TV in Turkey -- 14. International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels: "Women's Cinema, Women's Resistance, Cinema of Resistance."- 15. Machine gaze on women: How everyday machine-vision-technologies see women in films.

Call Number

MFL 21-1520

ISBN

• 3030560996
• 9783030560997

OCLC

1164489946

Title

Female agencies and subjectivities in film and television / Diğdem Sezen, Feride Çiçekoğlu, Aslı Tunç, Ebru Thwaites Diken, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sezen, Digdem, editor.

Çiçekoğlu, Feride, editor.

Tunç, Aslı, editor.

Thwaites Diken, Ebru, editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 21-1520