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dc.contributor.authorCeuterick, Maud
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-13T13:34:40Z
dc.date.available2020-11-13T13:34:40Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifierONIX_20201113_9783030370398_13
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42907
dc.description.abstractFifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film theory remain limited by binary models.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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherFilm Theory
dc.subject.otherCulture and Gender
dc.subject.otherGender and Culture
dc.subject.otherGender
dc.subject.otherAffect and Form
dc.subject.otherSpace
dc.subject.otherAffirmative Ethics
dc.subject.otherWilfulness
dc.subject.otherContemporary Cinema
dc.subject.otherOpen Access
dc.subject.otherFilm history, theory & criticism
dc.subject.otherCultural studies
dc.titleAffirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women
dc.title.alternativeGender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-37039-8
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages186


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