Contemporary Women's Cinema, Global Scenarios and Transnational Contexts

The anthology explores contemporary womens cinema in relation to issues related to gender and globalization. The anthology gathers scholars from several parts of the world from Italy, the USA, Turkey, Iran, Greece, New Zealand, Argentina, Germany and Canada. Such a global perspective is mirrored in the books content: the essays consider womens production in the domain of cinema by looking at various films and filmmakers around the globe and by tackling the relation between national, transnational and global contexts in film production. What comes out is a multifaceted picture showing that women filmmakers, and especially non- Western filmmakers, are key social actors able to narrate the complexities of the current geopolitical condition and of its subjects. Table of Contents: Introduction Veronica Pravadelli PART I: WOMENS CINEMA AND NATIONAL/TRANSNATIONAL/GLOBAL SCENARIOS 1. Traumatic Dystopian Futurist Scenarios: Documentary Film, Gender, an Witnessing in Jennifer Baichwals Manufactured Landscapes E. Ann Kaplan 2. Female Friendship, Globalization and Womens Filmmakingin the Mediterranean Veronica Pravadelli 3. Gendered Borderlands: Screens as Contact Zones in Contemporary Womens Cinema in India Neepa Majumdar 4. Global Change as a Scenario in Recent Films by British Women Directors Antonia Lant 5. Crossingthe (Inner) Borders: Aesthetics and Identity Policies in Contemporary European Cinema Ilaria A. De Pascalis PART II: WOMENS CINEMA AND NATIONAL CINEMAS 6. Everyday Labyrinths: Bodies of Memory in the Films of Vernica Chen Adrin Prez Melgosa 7. No Country for Women? The Place of Top of the Lake and Perfect Strangersin New Zealand Cinema Hilary Radner 8. Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Greece Eliza Anna Delveroudi 9. Perceptions of Feminismin Iranian Womens Cinema Somayeh Ghazizadeh PART III: THEORIES AND FORMS OF AUTHORSHIP 10. Colonial Imaginaries: White Women and World Cinema Authorship Patricia White 11. The Sound of Place/The Place of Sound: Lucrecia Martels Acoustic Imaginary Kathleen M. Vernon 12. Out of Step with Autobiographical Temporality: The Politics of the Affective in Petra Costas Elena Luz Horne 13. The Topographies of Ethnicity in Kym Ragusas Passing, fuori/outside, and The Skin Between Us Sabrina Vellucci 14. Subversive Strategies in Lucrecia Martels Cinema Uta Felten 15. Visual Encounters in Lost and Delirious and Blue Is the Warmest Color Maria Anita Stefanelli PART IV: WOMENS CINEMA AND NEW FORMS OF PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION 16. Her Blog: Womens Cinema in the Digital Age Rosanna Maule 17. Women Make Movies and the Politics of Contemporary Feminist Film Distribution Kristen M. Fallica 18. NestingInstincts? Women Filmmakers and TV Directors in Turkey Melis Behlil Biographies