Cette série explore le monde visionnaire des cinéastes féminins qui remodèlent le cinéma. Elle examine leurs approches innovantes, leurs perspectives uniques et leurs contributions cruciales au langage et au récit cinématographiques. Les lecteurs découvriront des créatrices audacieuses qui repoussent les limites et laissent une marque indélébile dans l'histoire du cinéma. C'est une célébration de la créativité, de l'esprit pionnier et de l'impact durable des femmes sur le grand écran.
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.