The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender comprises forty-three innovative essays that offer both an overview of and an intervention into the field of cinema and gender.
The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film, and female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The book includes a special focus on women directors in a global context, examining films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.
Alongside a comprehensive overview of feminist perspectives on genre, this collection also offers discussion on a range of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies, and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans* cinema, ecocinema, the post-human, and the methodological dimensions of feminist film history.
This Routledge Companion provides researchers, students, and scholars with an essential guide to the key political, cultural, and theoretical debates surrounding cinema and gender.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelaca, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro
Part I
WHAT IS [FEMINIST] CINEMA?
Introduction
Chapter 1
Classical Feminist Film Theory: Then and (Mostly) Now
Patrice Petro
Chapter 2
Postcolonial and Transnational Approaches to Film and Feminism
Sandra Ponzanesi
Chapter 3
Feminist Forms of Address: Mai Zetterling's Loving Couples
Lucy Fischer
Chapter 4
Sound and Gender
Kathleen Vernon
Chapter 5
Gender in Transit: Framing the Cinema of Migration
Sumita Chakravarty
Chapter 6
"No place for sissies": Gender, Age and Disability in Hollywood
Sally Chivers
Chapter 7
Chinese Socialist Women's Cinema: An Alternative Feminist Practice
Lingzhen Wang
Chapter 8
Gender, Socialism and European Film Cultures
Anikó Imre
Chapter 9
Queer or LGBTQ+: On the Question of Inclusivity in Queer Cinema Studies
Amy Borden
Part II
GENRES, MODES, STARS
Introduction
Chapter 10
Contested Masculinities: The Action Film, the War Film, and the Western
Yvonne Tasker
Chapter 11
The Rise and Fall of the Girly Film: From the Woman's Picture to the New Woman's Film, the Chick Flick and the Smart-Chick Film
Hilary Radner
Chapter 12
Moving Past the Trauma: Feminist Criticism and Transformations of the Slasher Genre Anthony Hayt
Chapter 13
Slapstick Comediennes in Silent Cinema: Women's Laughter and the Feminist Politics of Gender in Motion
Margaret Hennefeld
Chapter 14
Feminist Porn: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young, and Tristan Taormino
Chapter 15
The Postmodern Story of the Femme Fatale
Julie Grossman
Chapter 16
The Documentary: Female Subjectivity and the Problem of Realism
Belinda Smaill
Chapter 17
Experimental Women Filmmakers
Maureen Turim
Chapter 18
Transnational Stardom
Russell Meeuf
Part III
MAKING MOVIES
Introduction
Chapter 19
Feminist and Non-Western Interrogations of Film Authorship
Priya Jaikumar
Chapter 20
Pink Material: White Womanhood and the Colonial Imaginary in World Cinema Authorship Patricia White
Chapter 21
Women, Islam and Cinema: Gender Politics and Representation in Middle Eastern Films and Beyond
Eylem Atakav
Chapter 22
African 'First Films': Gendered Authorship, Identity, and Discursive Resistance
Anne Ciecko
Chapter 23
Black Women Filmmakers
Jacqueline Bobo
Chapter 24
Fair and Lovely: Class, Gender, and Colorism in Bollywood Song Sequences
Tejaswini Ganti
Chapter 25
What Was "Women's Work" in the Silent Film Era?
Jane Gaines
Chapter 26
Female Editors in Studio-Era Hollywood: Rethinking Feminist Frontiers and the Constraints of the Archive
J.E. Smyth
Chapter 27
Film Activism and Transformative Praxis: Women Make Movies
Debra Zimmerman
Part IV
SPECTATORSHIP, RECEPTION, PROJECTING IDENTITIES
Introduction
Chapter 28
Psychoanalysis Outside and Beyond the Gaze
Claire Pajaczkowska
Chapter 29
Embodying Spectatorship: From Phenomenology to Sensation
Jenny Chamarette
Chapter 30
Deleuzian Spectatorship
Felicity Colman
Chapter 31
Film Reception Studies and Feminism
Janet Staiger
Chapter 32
Nollywood, Female Audience, and the Negotiating of Pleasure
Ikechukwu Obiaya
Chapter 33
Gender and Fandom: From Spectators to Social Audiences
Katherine E. Morrissey
Chapter 34
Classical Hollywood and Modernity: Gender, Style, Aesthetics
Veronica Pravadelli
Chapter 35
Lesbian Cinema Post-Feminism: Ageism, Difference, and Desire
Rachel Lewis
Part V
THINKING CINEMA'S FUTURE
Introduction
Chapter 36
Revolting Aesthetics: Feminist Transnational Cinema in the US
Katarzyna Marciniak
Chapter 37
Towards Trans Cinema
Eliza Steinbock
Chapter 38
Visualizing Climate Trauma: The Cultural Work of Films Anticipating the
Future
E. Ann Kaplan
Chapter 39
Eco-Cinema and Gender
Alexa Weik von Mossner
Chapter 40
Cinema, Animal Studies and the Post/Non-Human
Jennifer Lynn Peterson
Chapter 41
Class/Ornament: Cinema, New Media, Labor-Power and Performativity
Erica Levin
Chapter 42
Film Feminism, Post-Cinema and the Affective Turn
Dijana Jelaca
Chapter 43
Fantasy Echoes and the Future Anterior of Cinema and Gender
Kristin Lené Hole
Index
