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Record Nr.

UNINA9910424948403321

Autore

Ceuterick Maud

Titolo

Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women : Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema / / by Maud Ceuterick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2020

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-37039-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 186 p. 40 illus., 38 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

791.4301

791.43653

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Culture

Gender

Film Theory

Culture and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Affirmative ethics, wilfulness, and affects as forms -- 2. Urban wanderer and wilful performances: Head-on (Gegen die wand) -- 3. Housing wilfulness: Wadjda -- 4. Lived body, affects and cars: Friday night (Vendredi soir) -- 5. Conclusion: Affirmative aesthetics.

Sommario/riassunto

While the idea of women who stay at home and men who dominate the streets may seem outdated, binary considerations of gender, space, and power still proliferate in contemporary cinema. This open access book adopts a fluid approach to space designed to accommodate wilful, affirmative, and imaginative perspectives of gender on screen. Through close analysis, or micro-analysis, of Messidor (Alain Tanner, 1979), Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis, 2002), Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2012), and Head-On (Fatih Akin, 2004), this book looks for light, textures, rhythms, movement, and sound that give shape to affirmative forms, forms that contribute to rewriting bodies and spaces—such as cars, homes, and city streets—that reject traditional gender and power structures. Wilful women drive this book forward, through movement



and pauses, imagination and desire, persistence and dissimulation, eroticism, performance and abjection.