Part I. What is [feminist] cinema? -- Part II. Genres, modes, stars -- Part III. Making movies -- Part IV. Spectatorship, reception, projecting identities -- Part V. Thinking cinema's future.
Part II. Genres, modes, stars. Contested masculinities: the action film, the war film, and the western / Yvonne Tasker -- The rise and fall of the girly fim: from the woman's picture to the new woman's film, the chick flick, and the smart-chick film / Hilary Radner -- Moving past the trauma: feminist criticism and transformations of the slasher genre / Anthony Hayt -- Slapstick comediennes in silent cinema: women's laughter and the feminist politics of gender in motion / Margaret Hennefeld -- Feminist porn: the politics of producing pleasure / Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young, and Tristan Taormino -- The postmodern story of the femme fatale / Julie Grossman -- The documentary: female subjectivity and the problem of realism / Belinda Small -- Experimental women filmmakers / Maureen Turim -- Transnational stardom / Russell Meeuf.
Part V. Thinking cinema's future. Revolting aesthetics: feminist transnational cinema in the US / Katarzyna Marciniak -- Towards trans cinema / Eliza Steinbock -- Visualizing climate trauma: the cultural work of films anticipating the future / E. Ann Kaplan -- Ecocinema and gender / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Green porno and the sex life of animals in the digital age / Jennifer Peterson -- Class/Ornament: Cinema, new media, labor-power, and performativity / Erica Levin -- Film feminism, post-cinema, and the affactive turn / Dujana Jelaca -- Fantasy echoes and the future anterior of cinema and gender / Kristin Lené Hole.
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"Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. A special focus is on women directors in a global context that includes films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. The collection also offers a solid overview of feminist contributions to thinking on genre from the 'chick flick' to the action or Western film, to film noir and the slasher. Readers will find contributions on a variety of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and essays addressing the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans* cinema, eco-cinema and the post-human. Finally, readers interested in the history of film will find essays addressing the methodological dimensions of feminist film history, essays on silent and studio era women in film, and histories of female filmmakers in a variety of non-Western contexts"--Provided by publisher.