Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women: Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema
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Elektronische Ressource
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Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication:
Cham
Date:
2020.
Extent, illustration, format:
1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 186 p. 40 illus., 38 illus. in color.)
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
1. Introduction: Affirmative ethics, wilfulness, and affects as forms -- 2. Urban wanderer and wilful performances: Head-on (Gegen die wand) -- 3. Housing wilfulness: Wadjda -- 4. Lived body, affects and cars: Friday night (Vendredi soir) -- 5. Conclusion: Affirmative aesthetics.
While the idea of women who stay at home and men who dominate the streets may seem outdated, binary considerations of gender, space, and power still proliferate in contemporary cinema. This open access book adopts a fluid approach to space designed to accommodate wilful, affirmative, and imaginative perspectives of gender on screen. Through close analysis, or micro-analysis, of Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979), Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book looks for light, textures, rhythms, movement, and sound that give shape to affirmative forms, forms that contribute to rewriting bodies and spacessuch as cars, homes, and city streetsthat reject traditional gender and power structures. Wilful women drive this book forward, through movement and pauses, imagination and desire, persistence and dissimulation, eroticism, performance and abjection.
While the idea of women who stay at home and men who dominate the streets may seem outdated, binary considerations of gender, space, and power still proliferate in contemporary cinema. This open access book adopts a fluid approach to space designed to accommodate wilful, affirmative, and imaginative perspectives of gender on screen. Through close analysis, or micro-analysis, of Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979), Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book looks for light, textures, rhythms, movement, and sound that give shape to affirmative forms, forms that contribute to rewriting bodies and spacessuch as cars, homes, and city streetsthat reject traditional gender and power structures. Wilful women drive this book forward, through movement and pauses, imagination and desire, persistence and dissimulation, eroticism, performance and abjection.
Object text:
by Maud Ceuterick
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Open Access
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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2023-04-14
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2020-11-16
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2023-04-14
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