Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema /
Ceuterick, Maud.
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema / [electronic resource] : by Maud Ceuterick. - 1st ed. 2020. - XVI, 186 páginas40 ilustraciones, 38 ilustraciones in color. online resource.
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.
Open Access
While the idea of women who stay at home and men who dominate the streets may seem outdated, binary considerations of gender, space, and power still proliferate in contemporary cinema.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 spaces-such as cars, homes, and city streets-that 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.
9783030370398
10.1007/978-3-030-37039-8 doi
Motion pictures.
Sex.
Film Theory.
Gender Studies.
791.4301
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema / [electronic resource] : by Maud Ceuterick. - 1st ed. 2020. - XVI, 186 páginas40 ilustraciones, 38 ilustraciones in color. online resource.
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.
Open Access
While the idea of women who stay at home and men who dominate the streets may seem outdated, binary considerations of gender, space, and power still proliferate in contemporary cinema.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 spaces-such as cars, homes, and city streets-that 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.
9783030370398
10.1007/978-3-030-37039-8 doi
Motion pictures.
Sex.
Film Theory.
Gender Studies.
791.4301