Julia Erhart - Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films

Julia Erhart is Associate Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Her research focuses on contemporary women filmmakers and feminist and LGBT representations in film and television. She is the recipient of a grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2016), a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching (2014), and a fellowship from Fulbright (2000).

Drawing on insightful readings of a diverse array of films including Monster, Nadar, La rafle/The Round Up and Zero Dark Thirty, Erhart has crafted an eminently readable study of how female directors reshape historical film to make room for womens perspectives.

Julianne Pidduck, Associate Professor, Department
of Communication, the University of Montreal and
author of Contemporary Costume Film

Library of Gender and Popular Culture

From Mad Men to gaming culture, performance art to steam-punk fashion, the presentation and representation of gender continues to saturate popular media. This new series seeks to explore the intersection of gender and popular culture, engaging with a variety of texts drawn primarily from Art, Fashion, TV, Cinema, Cultural Studies and Media Studies as a way of considering various models for understanding the complementary relationship between gender identities and popular culture. By considering race, ethnicity, class, and sexual identities across a range of cultural forms, each book in the series will adopt a critical stance towards issues surrounding the development of gender identities and popular and mass cultural products.

For further information or enquiries, please
contact the library series editors:

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Advisory Board:

Dr Kate Ames, Central Queensland University, Australia

Prof Leslie Heywood, Binghampton University, USA

Dr Michael Higgins, Strathclyde University, UK

Prof sa Kroon, rebro University, Sweden

Dr Niall Richardson, Sussex University, UK

Dr Jacki Willson, Central St Martins, University of Arts London, UK

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Published in 2018 by
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Copyright 2018 Julia Erhart

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Library of Gender and Popular Culture 15

ISBN: 978 1 78453 528 5

eISBN: 978 1 78672 426 7

ePDF: 978 1 78673 426 6

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To the memory of my parents, Chuck and Sylvia Erhart

Contents

List of Figures

A League of Their Own. Columbia Pictures, 1992. Dir. Penny Marshall.

Empathetic humour. The Watermelon Woman. Dancing Girl Productions, 1996. Dir. Cheryl Dunye.

The spectacle of hysteria. Augustine. Dharamsala, 2012. Dir. Alice Winocour.

Self-spectacularisation: the final episode. Augustine. Dharamsala, 2012. Dir. Alice Winocour.

Lee: I had a lot of dreams.