Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema
So Mayer
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Description for Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema
Hardback. First book about new wave of feminist film. Series: International Library of the Moving Image. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 bw integrated. BIC Classification: APF; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, ... Read more
Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
International Library of the Moving Image
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784533717
SKU
V9781784533717
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About So Mayer
Sophie Mayer is a writer, editor, activist and educator. She works with English PEN and is a film journalist for Sight & Sound and The F-Word. She is an affiliate lecturer in Screen Media and Cultures at the University of Cambridge, and was the first Poet in Residence at the Archive of the Now, Queen Mary University of London. Her ... Read more
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