Female agencies and subjectivities in film and television. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Diğdem Sezen, Feride Çiçekoğlu, Aslı Tunç, Ebru Thwaites Diken, editors.
• Editors: Sezen, Digdem; Çiçekoğlu, Feride; Tunç, Aslı; Thwaites Diken, Ebru
• Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Agnès Varda and the Singular Feminine -- 3. Female Agency in Pelin Esmer Films: The Play (2005) and Queen Lear (2019) -- 4. The Feminine Indistinction in Susanne Bier's Cinema: The Brothers (2005), In a Better World (2010), Bird Box (2019) -- 5. Consuming Bodies, Abject Spaces: Ana Lily Amirpour's Transcultural Expressionism -- 6. Claire Underwood: Feminist Warrior or Shakespearean Villain? Re-visiting Feminine Evil in House of Cards -- 7. The Phenomenology of Orphan Black as Molecular Politics -- 8. 'I will not be bullied into submission': Discussing subjection and resistance in GLOW (2017) -- 9. Female Body Language: Cutting, Scarring, and Becoming in HBO's Sharp Objects -- 10. The Strong Female Lead: Postfeminist Representation of Women and Femininity in Netflix Shows, Derya Özkan, Deborah Hardt -- 11. The Technological Turn of the Femme Fatale: The Fembot and Alternative Fates -- 12. Women Remembering: Gender and Genre in Persona and Happy Valley -- 13. Bridal anxieties: Politics of gender, neoconservatism and daytime TV in Turkey -- 14. International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels: "Women's Cinema, Women's Resistance, Cinema of Resistance."- 15. Machine gaze on women: How everyday machine-vision-technologies see women in films.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 791.436522; Feminism and motion pictures; Agent (Philosophy); Women in motion pictures; Women in the motion picture industry; Women on television; Women in television broadcasting; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030561000; 3030561003
• Related ISBNs: 3030560996; 9783030560997
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 08, 2021).
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