White, Patricia, 1964-

Women's cinema, world cinema : projecting contemporary feminisms / Patricia White. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2015. - 1 online resource (281 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

To each her own cinema : world cinema and the woman cineaste : Jane Campion's Cannes connections; Lucrecia Martel's vertiginous authorship; Samira Makhmalbaf's sororal cinema -- Framing feminisms : women's cinema as art cinema : Deepa Mehta's elemental feminism; Iranian diasporan women directors and cultural capital -- Feminist film in the age of the chick flick : global flows of women's cinema : engendering new Korean cinema in Jeong Jae-eun's Take care of my cat; Nadine Labaki's celebrity -- Network narratives : Asian women directors two-timing the system in Nia Dinata's Love for share -- Zero Chou and the spaces of Chinese lesbian film -- Is the whole world watching? Fictions of women's human rights : Sabiha Sumar's Democratic cinema; Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica and Balkan cinema's incommensurable gazes; Claudia Llosa's Trans/national address.

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Women motion picture producers and directors.
Feminism and motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women.