Gendering History on Screen

Women Filmmakers and Historical Films

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de Julia Erhart

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Historical films

Mots Clés

historical films, women, gender

Année d'édition

2018

Editeur

I.B.Tauris

Collection

Library of Gender and Popular Culture

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 240 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78453-528-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender. Films by female directors featuring female protagonists appear to receive particularly harsh treatment and are often criticised for being too 'emotional' and incapable of expressing 'real' history. Through her examination of films from the United States, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, Julia Erhart makes powerful connections between the representational strategies of women directors such as Kathryn Bigelow, Ruth Ozeki and Alexandra von Grote and their concerns with exploring the past through the prism of the present. She also compellingly explores how historiographical concepts like valour, memory, and resistance are uniquely re-envisioned within sub-genres including biopics, historical documentaries, Holocaust movies, and movies about the 'War on Terror'. Gendering History on Screen will make an invaluable contribution to scholarship on historical film and women's cinema.

À propos de l'auteur :
Julia Erhart is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, Australia.Claire Nally is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature in the Department of English Literature, Linguistics and Creative Writing at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of Steampunk: Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian (Bloomsbury, 2019), co-editor or Bloomsbury Library of Gender and Popular Culture and Deputy Editor (including reviews) of the open access journal C21 Literature.Angela Smith is Professor of Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland, UK. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on media discourses, gender, the portrayal of immigrants and the representation of politicians.

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