Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices

Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction: A Revised Women’s Cinema Through Lynn Hershmann-Leeson’s Cyberfeminist Interventions......Page 14
History and context......Page 15
Arriving at a sustainable ethical stance......Page 19
1 On the Edges of the Authorial Voice: Liv Ullmann’s Faithless, Gendered Authorship, and Ingmar Bergman......Page 39
2 On the Edges of the Documentary: Jill Craigie’s Political and Aesthetic Sensibilities......Page 55
Aesthetics of the political; or, politicising the aesthetic......Page 60
Argument and rhetoric......Page 65
Ethics and knowledge......Page 70
3 On the Edges of Ethnography: Kim Longinotto’s Institution of Feminist Discourses......Page 74
The radical management of female discontent......Page 75
Interrogating institutions......Page 84
Feminism with women......Page 89
4 On the Edges of Art Cinema: Sally Potter and the Feminist Response......Page 97
Dissecting stories......Page 98
Reinventing narratives......Page 101
Performing the personal and the political......Page 105
Aesthetic convergence and political response......Page 110
5 On the Edges of Post-Colonialism: Deepa Mehta and Transnational Cinema......Page 121
Transnational author......Page 126
6 On the Edges of National Cinema: Sofia Coppola and Female Authorship......Page 139
The problem with female authorship......Page 140
A cinema of loneliness......Page 144
Lost in translation......Page 147
7 On the Edges of Geopolitics: Sexual Difference in Ursula Biemann’s Video Essays......Page 161
Borderlands......Page 166
Interventions in representation......Page 170
Boundary events......Page 178
Conclusion: Vignettes of a New Feminist Politique: Gisela Sanders Alcántara, Guo Xiaolu, Christina McPhee, Liz Miller......Page 184
The personal is political reconfigured......Page 187
Interdependent media......Page 197
Beyond the evidentiary…......Page 199
…And towards participatory politics......Page 203
Bibliography......Page 210
C......Page 218
E......Page 219
H......Page 220
M......Page 221
P......Page 222
S......Page 223
Z......Page 224