Disruptive Feminisms

Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film

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by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

feminism, gender

Publishing date

2015

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Collection

Palgrave Pivot

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 114 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-59767-0

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Book Presentation:
Amy Schumer and Betty White use subversive feminist wit to expose sexism and ageism in film and TV. This is but one example of "disruptive feminism" discussed in this groundbreaking book. Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies offers a revolutionary approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining texts that do not necessarily announce themselves as "feminist," or "Marxist," Foster brings a unique critical perspective to a wide variety of films, from the classical Hollywood films of Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino, to the subversive global films of Carlos Reygadas, Claire Denis, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Buñuel, Paul Thomas Anderson, and many others. In highlighting these filmmaker's abilities to openly challenge everything from class privilege and colonial racism, to sexism, ageism, homophobia and the pathologies of white privilege, Disruptive Feminisms fills a fresh and much-needed critical perspective, that which Foster dubs "disruptive feminism."

About the Author:
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English and Film Studies in the Department of English, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her numerous books include A Short History of Film co-authored Wheeler Winston Dixon.Visit vimeo.com/user33782190 to view Foster's experimental short films.Visit gwendolynaudreyfoster.com for information on Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's books and essays.

Press Reviews:
"I think the book is superior in many ways, just simply a jewel. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's peculiar and enchanting magic is to blend keen socio-critical attention with an unyielding poetic sensitivity to the world of hints, provocations, resonances, and allusions. Through the films examined here, and through Foster's eyes, gender, class, and race fly beyond rhetoric and come alive." - Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, author of The Eyes Have It: Cinema and The Reality Effect

"This book passionately advocates a cinema that challenges injustice and oppression across the globe by disrupting 'normative values' and 'received notions' of race and class as well as gender. Not least of the book's strengths is its illumination of culturally and aesthetically diverse works ranging from Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux (2012) and Claire Denis' No Fear, No Die (1990) to Betty White's television programs of the 1950s." - Ira Jaffe, Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico and author of Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action.

"Written with a strong sense of personality, and even stronger and laudable political commitments, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's Disruptive Feminisms extends her ongoing endeavor to provide meaningful critiques of film and film culture. This thoughtful book demonstrates how a number of films, from around the world and from different genres, disrupt the status quo through a feminist and postcolonial analysis." - Daniel Herbert, author of Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan