The anthology explores contemporary women’s cinema in relation to issues related to gender and globalization. The anthology gathers scholars from several parts of the world – from Italy, the USA, Turkey, Iran, Greece, New Zealand, Argentina, Germany and Canada. Such a global perspective is mirrored in the book’s content: the essays consider women’s production in the domain of cinema by looking at various films and filmmakers around the globe and by tackling the relation between national, transnational and global contexts in film production. What comes out is a multifaceted picture showing that women filmmakers, and especially non- Western filmmakers, are key social actors able to narrate the complexities of the current geopolitical condition and of its subjects.

 

Table of Contents:

 

Introduction Veronica Pravadelli

 

PART I: WOMEN’S CINEMA AND NATIONAL/TRANSNATIONAL/GLOBAL SCENARIOS

1. Traumatic Dystopian Futurist Scenarios: Documentary Film, Gender, an Witnessing in Jennifer Baichwal’s Manufactured Landscapes

E. Ann Kaplan

 

2. Female Friendship, Globalization and Women’s Filmmakingin the Mediterranean

Veronica Pravadelli

 

3. Gendered Borderlands: Screens as Contact Zones in Contemporary Women’s Cinema in India

Neepa Majumdar

 

4. Global Change as a Scenario in Recent Films by British Women Directors

Antonia Lant

 

5. Crossingthe (Inner) Borders: Aesthetics and Identity Policies in Contemporary European Cinema

Ilaria A. De Pascalis

 

PART II: WOMEN’S CINEMA AND NATIONAL CINEMAS

6. Everyday Labyrinths: Bodies of Memory in the Films of Verónica Chen

Adrián Pérez Melgosa

 

7. No Country for Women? The Place of Top of the Lake and Perfect Strangersin New Zealand Cinema

Hilary Radner

 

8. Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Greece Eliza

Anna Delveroudi

 

9. Perceptions of Feminismin Iranian Women’s Cinema

Somayeh Ghazizadeh

 

PART III: THEORIES AND FORMS OF AUTHORSHIP

10. Colonial Imaginaries: White Women and World Cinema Authorship

Patricia White

 

11. The Sound of Place/The Place of Sound: Lucrecia Martel’s Acoustic Imaginary

Kathleen M. Vernon

 

12. Out of Step with Autobiographical Temporality: The Politics of the Affective in Petra Costa’s Elena

Luz Horne

 

13. The Topographies of Ethnicity in Kym Ragusa’s Passing, fuori/outside, and The Skin Between Us

Sabrina Vellucci

 

14. Subversive Strategies in Lucrecia Martel’s Cinema

Uta Felten

 

15. Visual Encounters in Lost and Delirious and Blue Is the Warmest Color

Maria Anita Stefanelli

 

PART IV: WOMEN’S CINEMA AND NEW FORMS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION

16. Her Blog: Women’s Cinema in the Digital Age

Rosanna Maule

 

17. Women Make Movies and the Politics of Contemporary Feminist Film Distribution

Kristen M. Fallica

 

18. NestingInstincts? Women Filmmakers and TV Directors in Turkey

Melis Behlil

 

Biographies