Hole Kristin Lené - The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender

The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender comprises forty-three innovative essays that offer both an overview of and an intervention into the field of cinema and gender.

The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film, and female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The book includes a special focus on women directors in a global context, examining films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and North and South America.

Alongside a comprehensive overview of feminist perspectives on genre, this collection also offers discussion on a range of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies, and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans* cinema, ecocinema, the post-human, and the methodological dimensions of feminist film history.

This Routledge Companion provides researchers, students, and scholars with an essential guide to the key political, cultural, and theoretical debates surrounding cinema and gender.

Kristin Len Hole teaches in the film department at Portland State University. She is the author of Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Nancy (2015).

Dijana Jelaa Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema (2016). Her areas of inquiry include transnational feminism, trauma, and memory. Her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Studies, and elsewhere.

E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directed the Humanities Institute for twenty-seven years. Her recent research focuses on trauma as evident in her co-edited book, Trauma and Cinema (2004), and her 2005 monograph, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature. Her book on Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction continues her research on trauma, and was published in 2015.

Patrice Petro is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also serves as Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of eleven books, most recently, After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship (2016), Teaching Film (2012), and Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s (2010).

Contributors: Eylem Atakav, Jacqueline Bobo, Amy Borden, Sumita Chakravarty, Jenny Chamarette, Sally Chivers, Anne Ciecko, Felicity Colman, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Tejaswini Ganti, Julie Grossman, Anthony Hayt, Margaret Hennefeld, Kristin Len Hole, Anik Imre, Priya Jaikumar, Dijana Jelaa, E. Ann Kaplan, Erica Levin, Rachel A. Lewis, Katarzyna Marciniak, Russell Meeuf, Mireille Miller-Young, Katherine E. Morrissey, Ikechukwu Obiaya, Claire Pajaczkowska, Celine Parreas Shimizu, Constance Penley, Jennifer Peterson, Patrice Petro, Sandra Ponzanesi, Veronica Pravadelli, Hilary Radner, Belinda Smaill, J. E. Smyth, Janet Staiger, Eliza Steinbock, Tristan Taormino, Yvonne Tasker, Maureen Turim, Kathleen M. Vernon, Lingzhen Wang, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Patricia White, Debra Zimmerman.

Edited by Kristin Len Hole, Dijana Jelaa,
E. Ann Kaplan, and Patrice Petro

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Names: Hole, Kristin Len, editor. | Jelaca, Dijana, 1979- editor. |
Kaplan, E. Ann, editor. | Petro, Patrice, 1957- editor.
Title: The Routledge companion to cinema and gender / edited by Kristin
Lene Hole, Dijana Jelaca, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Includes index.Identifiers:
LCCN 2016017952| ISBN 9781138924956 (hardback: alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781315684062 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Sex role in motion pictures
Classification: LCC PN1995.9.S47 R68 2017 | DDC 791.43/653dc23LC
record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017952

ISBN: 978-1-318-92495-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-135-68406-2 (ebk)

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Kristin Len Hole, Dijana Jelaa, E. Ann Kaplan, and Patrice Petro

PART I
What is [feminist] cinema?

Patrice Petro

Sandra Ponzanesi

Lucy Fischer

Kathleen M. Vernon

Sumita S. Chakravarty

Sally Chivers

Lingzhen Wang

Anik Imre

Amy Borden

PART II
Genres, modes, stars

Yvonne Tasker

Hilary Radner

Anthony Hayt

Margaret Hennefeld

Constance Penley, Celine Parreas Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young, and Tristan Taormino

Julie Grossman

Belinda Smaill

Maureen Turim

Russell Meeuf

PART III
Making movies

Priya Jaikumar

Patricia White

Eylem Atakav

Anne Ciecko

Jacqueline Bobo

Tejaswini Ganti

Jane Gaines

J. E. Smyth

Debra Zimmerman

PART IV
Spectatorship, reception, projecting identities

Claire Pajaczkowska

Jenny Chamarette

Felicity Colman

Janet Staiger

Ikechukwu Obiaya

Katherine E. Morrissey

Veronica Pravadelli

Rachel A. Lewis

PART V
Thinking cinemas future

Katarzyna Marciniak

Eliza Steinbock

E. Ann Kaplan

Alexa Weik von Mossner