TY - BOOK ID - 78643353 TI - Political animals PY - 2016 SN - 0755604350 0857727974 0857729942 9780857727978 9780857729941 1784533718 1784533726 9781784533717 9781784533724 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Feminism and motion pictures. KW - Feminist films KW - Feminist cinema KW - Feminist motion pictures KW - Women's liberation films KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures and feminism KW - History and criticism. KW - #SBIB:309H1323 KW - #SBIB:309H1321 KW - #SBIB:309H1312 KW - Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: auteurs KW - Films met een amusementsfunctie en/of esthetische functie: algemeen KW - Filmwezen: bedrijfseconomische aspecten, productie- en distributiestructuren KW - Feminist films. KW - Films, cinema KW - Feministischer Film. KW - Feminist cinema. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78643353 AB - Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but starting to change cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional, sustainable, family-friendly and far-reaching. Political Animals argues that, forty years since Laura Mulvey's seminal essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' identified the urgent need for a feminist counter-cinema, this promise seems to be on the point of fulfilment.Forty years of a transnational, trans-generational cinema has given rise to conversations between the work of now well-established filmmakers such as Abigail Child, Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twenty-first century auteurs including Kelly Reichardt and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors such as Sandrine Bonnaire, Shonali Bose, Zeina Daccache, and Hana Makhmalbaf. A new and diverse generation of British independent filmmakers such as Franny Armstrong, Andrea Arnold, Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Tina Gharavi, Sally El Hoseini, Carol Morley, Samantha Morton, Penny Woolcock, and Campbell X join a worldwide dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new and informed point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that refuses to be domesticated by the persistence of everyday sexism, striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own. ER -