Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women

Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9783030370398
ISBN-13 : 3030370399
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Download or read book Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women written by Maud Ceuterick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film theory remain limited by binary models. Looking instead to more fluid models of spatial relations inspired by Sara Ahmed, Rosi Braidotti, and Doreen Massey, this book discovers wilful, affirmative, and imaginative activations of gender on screen. Through close, micro-analysis of historic European Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979) and contemporary world cinema: Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book identifies affirmative aesthetics: light, texture, rhythm, movement and sound, all of which that participate in a rewriting of bodies and spaces. Ultimately, Ceuterick argues, affirmative aesthetics can challenge the gender categories and power structures that have been thought to determine our habitation of cars, homes, and city streets. Wilful women drive this book forward, through their movement and stillness, imagination and desire, performance and abjection.


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