TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ceuterick, Maud
AB  - Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film theory remain limited by binary models. Looking instead to more fluid models of spatial relations inspired by Sara Ahmed, Rosi Braidotti, and Doreen Massey, this book discovers wilful, affirmative, and imaginative activations of gender on screen. Through close, micro-analysis of historic European Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979) and contemporary world cinema: Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book identifies affirmative aesthetics: light, texture, rhythm, movement and sound, all of which that participate in a rewriting of bodies and spaces. Ultimately, Ceuterick argues, affirmative aesthetics can challenge the gender categories and power structures that have been thought to determine our habitation of cars, homes, and city streets. Wilful women drive this book forward, through their movement and stillness, imagination and desire, performance and abjection.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-37039-8
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20201113_9783030370398_13
KW  - Film Theory
KW  - Culture and Gender
KW  - Gender and Culture
KW  - Gender
KW  - Affect and Form
KW  - Space
KW  - Affirmative Ethics
KW  - Wilfulness
KW  - Contemporary Cinema
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Film history, theory & criticism
KW  - Cultural studies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f6e81b27-c4f6-4f60-9c0c-8c952c8335d2/2020_Book_AffirmativeAestheticsAndWilful.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42907
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2020
TI  - Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women : Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema
ER  - 
