Political Animals : The New Feminist Cinema by Sophie Mayer read FB2, TXT
9781784533724 English 1784533726 Female filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last five years have witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Burkina Faso and Kenya; the first stirrings of a 'trans cinema', with the release of films that represent transgender characters and their experiences, challenging our understanding of gender and identity; feminist porn screened at public festivals; and Pussy Riot's online documentation of offline activism sending shockwaves around the world. Political Animals argues that a new wave of feminist cinema is speaking to a new audience hungry for intersectional accounts of women in the public sphere that are missing in the mainstream. It reveals how innovative production and distribution strategies are responding to urgent political situations (resulting in colourful guerrilla aesthetics exemplified in the rough, D.I.Y, online videos made by Pussy Riot, but equally found in recent documentaries and features by established filmmakers too) and tunes in to the transnational, transgenerational conversations that are taking place between filmmakers such as Sally Potter, Claire Denis, Barbara Hammer, Mania Akbari, Haifaa al-Mansour, Emily Jacir, Andrea Arnold and Clio Barnard. Courageous and complex, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that, while laying claim to the public sphere as its own, refuses to be domesticated by it., Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; the success of female filmmakers via broadcast and streaming series; women filmmakers emerging from countries like Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Burkina Faso and Kenya; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn at major festivals; Sweden's A-Märkt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos causing worldwide shock. This new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but changing cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional sustainable and inclusive Four decades of a trans-nations, trans-generational cinema have given rise to conversations between the work of established filmmakers such as Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twentyûfirstûcentury auteurs including Kelly Reicnarde and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors like Wanuri Kahiu and Hans Makhmalbaf. A new generation of British independent filmmakers such as Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley and Campbell X join a global dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal refusing to be domesticated by everyday sexism and striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own. Book jacket.
9781784533724 English 1784533726 Female filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last five years have witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Iran, South Korea, Japan, Paraguay, Uruguay, Burkina Faso and Kenya; the first stirrings of a 'trans cinema', with the release of films that represent transgender characters and their experiences, challenging our understanding of gender and identity; feminist porn screened at public festivals; and Pussy Riot's online documentation of offline activism sending shockwaves around the world. Political Animals argues that a new wave of feminist cinema is speaking to a new audience hungry for intersectional accounts of women in the public sphere that are missing in the mainstream. It reveals how innovative production and distribution strategies are responding to urgent political situations (resulting in colourful guerrilla aesthetics exemplified in the rough, D.I.Y, online videos made by Pussy Riot, but equally found in recent documentaries and features by established filmmakers too) and tunes in to the transnational, transgenerational conversations that are taking place between filmmakers such as Sally Potter, Claire Denis, Barbara Hammer, Mania Akbari, Haifaa al-Mansour, Emily Jacir, Andrea Arnold and Clio Barnard. Courageous and complex, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that, while laying claim to the public sphere as its own, refuses to be domesticated by it., Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; the success of female filmmakers via broadcast and streaming series; women filmmakers emerging from countries like Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Burkina Faso and Kenya; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn at major festivals; Sweden's A-Märkt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos causing worldwide shock. This new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but changing cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional sustainable and inclusive Four decades of a trans-nations, trans-generational cinema have given rise to conversations between the work of established filmmakers such as Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twentyûfirstûcentury auteurs including Kelly Reicnarde and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors like Wanuri Kahiu and Hans Makhmalbaf. A new generation of British independent filmmakers such as Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley and Campbell X join a global dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal refusing to be domesticated by everyday sexism and striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own. Book jacket.