Deze serie duikt in de visionaire wereld van vrouwelijke filmmakers die de cinema hervormen. Het onderzoekt hun innovatieve benaderingen, unieke perspectieven en cruciale bijdragen aan de filmtaal en -verhalen. Lezers ontdekken moedige makers die grenzen verleggen en een onuitwisbare stempel drukken op de filmgeschiedenis. Het is een viering van creativiteit, pioniersgeest en de blijvende impact van vrouwen op het witte doek.
A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins's films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribution to each of these canons.
The writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innovations such as the disjunction of film and image, and the primacy given to voices, silence and music. Her multisensorial approach opened up new spaces for the female experience to be expressed. Although she worked with some of the best French visual technicians and musicians of her time, critiques have often neglected the visual and sonic aesthetics of her films, and their effects on spectators. Drawing on theories of embodiment and spectatorship, this book analyses the tactility and multisensoriality of Duras' films, and how they relate to her female-centred perspective.