QUIET PICTURES : women and silence in contemporary british and french cinema

"Quiet Pictures approaches the films of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilovic through the lens of silence. It looks at uses of silence and how this creates a space for innovative practices that establish new ways of looking, staring, and gazing. The deployment of silence allows for reciprocal gazes that counteract the typically gendered and binary ways in which women and femme-presenting people tend to be portrayed on screen. Quiet Pictures draws on the political legacy of feminist film theory to explore and conceptualise what it means to not just look back, but to share the gaze"-- Cover Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: More than Absence: Silences in the Cinemas of Joanna Hogg, Lynne Ramsay, Céline Sciamma, and Lucile Hadžhalilović 1 Childhood, Curiosity, and Compliance in Innocence, Evolution, and Tomboy 2 Adolescence and Collaborative Queer Gazes in Water Lilies/Naissance des pieuvres, and Girlhood/Bande des Filles 3 Artist-Exhibitionists and Silence as Utopian Space in Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar and Joanna Hogg’s Exhibition 4 Sinister Silences and Mothering in Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lucile Hadžhalilović’s Evolution 5 Silenced Desire and Anger in Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated, Archipelago, and Exhibition Afterword References Index