Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within. Using canonical directors and less established names, ranging from Chantal Akerman to Moufida Tlatli, as examples, Butler argues that women's cinema is unified in spite of its diversity by the ways in which it reworks cinematic conventions.
| ISBN: | 9781903364277 |
| Publication date: | 15th April 2002 |
| Author: | Alison Butler |
| Publisher: | Wallflower Press an imprint of Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 134 pages |
| Series: | Short Cuts |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: women and girls |
Women's Cinema provides an introduction to critical debates around women's filmmaking and relates those debates to a variety of cinematic practices. Taking her cue from the groundbreaking theories of Claire Johnston, Alison Butler argues that women's cinema is a minor cinema that exists inside other cinemas, inflecting and contesting the codes and systems of the major cinematic traditions from within.
Women's Cinema features in the following genres: Gender studies: women and girls
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Women's Cinema was written by Alison Butler and published by Wallflower Press an imprint of Columbia University Press
Women's Cinema has 134 pages
Yes it is part of Short Cuts series