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Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films
Julia Erhart
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Description for Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films
Hardcover. Analysis of how women directors explore the past from the perspective of the present. Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APF; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender. Films by female directors featuring female protagonists appear to receive particularly harsh treatment and are often criticised for being too 'emotional' and incapable of expressing 'real' history. Through her examination of films from the United States, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, Julia Erhart makes powerful connections between the representational strategies of women directors such as Kathryn Bigelow, Ruth Ozeki and Alexandra von Grote and their concerns with exploring the past through the prism of the present. ... Read more
Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender. Films by female directors featuring female protagonists appear to receive particularly harsh treatment and are often criticised for being too 'emotional' and incapable of expressing 'real' history. Through her examination of films from the United States, Europe, Australia and elsewhere, Julia Erhart makes powerful connections between the representational strategies of women directors such as Kathryn Bigelow, Ruth Ozeki and Alexandra von Grote and their concerns with exploring the past through the prism of the present. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Series
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784535285
SKU
V9781784535285
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About Julia Erhart
Julia Erhart is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University. She researches in the areas of contemporary women filmmakers and feminist and LGBT representations in film and television and is the recipient of a grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2016), a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian ... Read more
Reviews for Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films
`Drawing on insightful readings of a diverse array of films including Monster, Nadar, La rafle/The Round Up and Zero Dark Thirty, Erhart has crafted an eminently readable study of how female directors reshape historical film to make room for women's perspectives' - Julianne Pidduck, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, the University of Montreal and author of Contemporary Costume Film