The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
Part I What is [feminist] cinema?......Page 34
1 Classical feminist film theory: then and (mostly) now......Page 36
2 Postcolonial and transnational approaches to film and feminism......Page 46
3 Feminist forms of address: Mai Zetterling’s Loving Couples......Page 57
4 Sound and gender......Page 68
5 Gender in transit: framing the cinema of migration......Page 78
6 “No place for sissies”: gender, age, and disability in Hollywood......Page 89
7 Chinese socialist women’s cinema: an alternative feminist practice......Page 98
8 Gender, socialism, and European film cultures......Page 109
9 Queer or LGBTQ+: on the question of inclusivity in queer cinema studies......Page 119
Part II Genres, modes, stars......Page 130
10 Contested masculinities: the action film, the war film, and the Western......Page 132
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......Page 142
12 Moving past the trauma: feminist criticism and transformations of the slasher genre......Page 152
13 Slapstick comediennes in silent cinema: women’s laughter and the feminist politics of gender in motion......Page 162
14 Feminist porn: the politics of producing pleasure......Page 176
15 The postmodern story of the femme fatale......Page 185
16 The documentary: female subjectivity and the problem of realism......Page 195
17 Experimental women filmmakers......Page 205
18 Transnational stardom......Page 215
Part III Making movies......Page 224
19 Feminist and non-Western interrogations of film authorship......Page 226
20 Pink material: white womanhood and the colonial imaginary of world cinema authorship......Page 236
21 Women, Islam, and cinema: gender politics and representation in Middle Eastern films and beyond......Page 248
22 African “first films”: gendered authorship, identity, and discursive resistance......Page 258
23 Black women filmmakers: a brief history......Page 268
24 Fair and lovely: class, gender, and colorism in Bollywood song sequences......Page 277
25 What was “women’s work” in the silent film era?......Page 287
26 Female editors in studio-era Hollywood: rethinking feminist “frontiers” and the constraints of the archives......Page 300
27 Film as activism and transformative praxis: Women Make Movies......Page 310
Part IV Spectatorship, reception, projecting identities......Page 320
28 Psychoanalysis beyond the gaze: from celluloid to new media......Page 322
29 Embodying spectatorship: from phenomenology to sensation......Page 332
30 Deleuzian spectatorship......Page 343
31 Film reception studies and feminism......Page 353
32 Nollywood, female audience, and the negotiating of pleasure......Page 363
33 Gender and fandom: from spectators to social audiences......Page 373
34 Classical Hollywood and modernity: gender, style, aesthetics......Page 382
35 Lesbian cinema post-feminism: ageism, difference, and desire......Page 393
Part V Thinking cinema’s future......Page 404
36 Revolting aesthetics: feminist transnational cinema in the US......Page 406
37 Towards trans cinema......Page 416
38 Visualizing climate trauma: the cultural work of films anticipating the future......Page 428
39 Ecocinema and gender......Page 438
40 Green Porno and the sex life of animals in the digital age......Page 448
41 Class/Ornament: Cinema, new media, labor-power, and performativity......Page 458
42 Film feminism, post-cinema, and the affective turn......Page 467
43 Fantasy echoes and the future anterior of cinema and gender......Page 479
Index......Page 489