Political Animals
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 atrans cinemaa, 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 Riotas 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 it30 Mayer, a#39;Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: a secret thread of feminist elders revealeda#39;, The F-Word: Contemporary UK Feminism, 22 July ... 1 Varda, AgnAus, quoted in Ellis-Petersen, Hannah, a#39;AgnAus Varda hits out at European cinemaa#39;s failure to recognise womena#39;, The Guardian, 14 December 2014, available online, ... http:// www.clubdesfemmes.com; www.raisingfilms.com. ... 14 Beck, Laura, a#39;Wikipediaa#39;s editors are 91 percent male because citations are stored in the ball sacka#39;, Jezebel , anbsp;...
| Title | : | Political Animals |
| Author | : | Sophie Mayer |
| Publisher | : | I.B.Tauris - 2015-10-22 |
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