The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender

Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. A special focus is on women directors in a global context that includes films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. The collection also offers a solid overview of feminist contributions to thinking on genre from the "chick flick" to the action or Western film, to film noir and the slasher. Readers will find contributions on a variety of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and essays addressing the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans\* cinema, eco-cinema and the post-human. Finally, readers interested in the history of film will find essays addressing the methodological dimensions of feminist film history, essays on silent and studio era women in film, and histories of female filmmakers in a variety of non-Western contexts. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 List of figures......Page 11 List of contributors......Page 13 Acknowledgments......Page 20 Introduction......Page 22 Part I What is [feminist] cinema?......Page 34 1 Classical feminist film theory: then and (mostly) now......Page 36 2 Postcolonial and transnational approaches to film and feminism......Page 46 3 Feminist forms of address: Mai Zetterling’s Loving Couples......Page 57 4 Sound and gender......Page 68 5 Gender in transit: framing the cinema of migration......Page 78 6 “No place for sissies”: gender, age, and disability in Hollywood......Page 89 7 Chinese socialist women’s cinema: an alternative feminist practice......Page 98 8 Gender, socialism, and European film cultures......Page 109 9 Queer or LGBTQ+: on the question of inclusivity in queer cinema studies......Page 119 Part II Genres, modes, stars......Page 130 10 Contested masculinities: the action film, the war film, and the Western......Page 132 11 The rise and fall of the girly film: from the woman’s picture to the new woman’s film, the chick flick, and the smart-chick film......Page 142 12 Moving past the trauma: feminist criticism and transformations of the slasher genre......Page 152 13 Slapstick comediennes in silent cinema: women’s laughter and the feminist politics of gender in motion......Page 162 14 Feminist porn: the politics of producing pleasure......Page 176 15 The postmodern story of the femme fatale......Page 185 16 The documentary: female subjectivity and the problem of realism......Page 195 17 Experimental women filmmakers......Page 205 18 Transnational stardom......Page 215 Part III Making movies......Page 224 19 Feminist and non-Western interrogations of film authorship......Page 226 20 Pink material: white womanhood and the colonial imaginary of world cinema authorship......Page 236 21 Women, Islam, and cinema: gender politics and representation in Middle Eastern films and beyond......Page 248 22 African “first films”: gendered authorship, identity, and discursive resistance......Page 258 23 Black women filmmakers: a brief history......Page 268 24 Fair and lovely: class, gender, and colorism in Bollywood song sequences......Page 277 25 What was “women’s work” in the silent film era?......Page 287 26 Female editors in studio-era Hollywood: rethinking feminist “frontiers” and the constraints of the archives......Page 300 27 Film as activism and transformative praxis: Women Make Movies......Page 310 Part IV Spectatorship, reception, projecting identities......Page 320 28 Psychoanalysis beyond the gaze: from celluloid to new media......Page 322 29 Embodying spectatorship: from phenomenology to sensation......Page 332 30 Deleuzian spectatorship......Page 343 31 Film reception studies and feminism......Page 353 32 Nollywood, female audience, and the negotiating of pleasure......Page 363 33 Gender and fandom: from spectators to social audiences......Page 373 34 Classical Hollywood and modernity: gender, style, aesthetics......Page 382 35 Lesbian cinema post-feminism: ageism, difference, and desire......Page 393 Part V Thinking cinema’s future......Page 404 36 Revolting aesthetics: feminist transnational cinema in the US......Page 406 37 Towards trans cinema......Page 416 38 Visualizing climate trauma: the cultural work of films anticipating the future......Page 428 39 Ecocinema and gender......Page 438 40 Green Porno and the sex life of animals in the digital age......Page 448 41 Class/Ornament: Cinema, new media, labor-power, and performativity......Page 458 42 Film feminism, post-cinema, and the affective turn......Page 467 43 Fantasy echoes and the future anterior of cinema and gender......Page 479 Index......Page 489 This comprehensive collection of all new essays assembles major theoretical approaches to cinema, gender, and spectatorship, covering the intersections with other discourses such as class, ethnicity, sexuality, stars, genres, new media, and feminist modes of address. Edited By Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, E. Ann Kaplan, And Patrice Petro. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.