Prolegomenon

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Kathleen McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Complex Functions ◽  
Reparative Reading ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Film Aesthetics

Kathleen McHugh explores the complex functions of women’s anger in the work and aesthetic circuitry—culture, texts, audience, reviewers—of contemporary feminist filmmakers. For all its ubiquity as a feminist feeling, anger has been little considered critically. While 1970s white theorists of feminine/feminist film aesthetics did not mention anger, feminist lesbian, materialist, and women-of-color critics lamented its absence. Julie Dash’s 1982 Illusions inaugurated an aesthetics of anger from a Black feminist perspective that exemplified the ideas in Audre Lorde’s foundational 1981 essay, “The Uses of Anger.” Drawing from Lorde’s and Sara Ahmed’s ideas about the creative value of feminist anger, together with recent affect theory on “reparative reading” and “better stories,” the essay explores four contemporary directors’ films and media works for how anger shapes their texts and critical reception and cultivates a mode of affective witness in their audiences.

Sisters in the Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Yvonne Welbon ◽  
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Queer Women ◽  
Media Arts ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Queer Women Of Color ◽  
Media Project

Yvonne Welbon, an award-winning filmmaker and founder of the Chicago-based nonprofit Sisters in Cinema, interviews Alexis Pauline Gumbs, cofounder of the Black Feminist Film School, as part of a larger trans-media project on the history of queer Black lesbian media makers, SistersintheLife.com. Gumbs speaks about Black feminist practices of education and filmmaking, delving into the founding and inspiration of the Black Feminist Film School and its mission to “create the world anew.” She explains her “community accountable practice” that is connected to traditions of Black intellectualism, her position as provost of a “tiny Black feminist university” that she calls Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, as well as how she and her collaborators have been inspired by QWOCMAP (Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project).

scholarly journals "Social horror": A critical analysis of ideological and poetic function of the motive of victim in the contemporary Serbian film

Temida ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-329
Author(s):  
Ivana Kronja
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
State System ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Poetic Function ◽  
Value Crisis ◽  
Film Aesthetics

This paper analyses achievements of Serbian cinematography after 2000, which narrative strategies and visual aesthetics are focused on the issues of violence and victims in the context of social despair, post-communist transition and ongoing global value crisis. Films made by Mladen Djordjevic Life and Death of a Porn Gang (2009), Srdjan Spasojevic A Serbian Movie (2010), and Marko Novakovic Menagerie (2012) integrate these complex characteristics of disintegration of Serbian community and dysfunctional state system into their cinematic poetics. These films present examples of radical film aesthetics, which, through strategies of making things unusual, and the influence of underground, pornography and horror on the realistic drama, speak about permanently traumatised Serbian society. They directly connect collective political state and the domain of personal, family, intimate and sexual, controversially relying on the images and narratives of gender misogyny and the violence it produces and its victims. The paper critically approaches these issues from the gender- feminist perspective.

Redesigning a Pocket Monument

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Catherine R. Squires ◽  
Aisha Upton
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Dollar Bill ◽  
Paper Currency ◽  
Reparative Reading ◽  
Treasury Department

In 2016, the Treasury Department announced that its planned redesign of the twenty-dollar bill would feature Harriet Tubman, sparking jubilation from activists who had campaigned for female representation on paper currency. But the redesign also brought sharp rebukes from white conservatives, including Republican presidential candidates, who accused the Treasury of capitulating to “political correctness” at the expense of the honor and memory of President Andrew Jackson. This chapter draws from a previous content analysis of news and editorial coverage of the redesign to incite a Black feminist reparative reading to elevate Tubman’s radical legacy over narratives that affirmed her as a postracial icon.

Disciplinary Peripheries

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-114
Author(s):  
Jenny Heijun Wills ◽  
Délice Mugabo
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
White Women ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Race Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women Scholars

This chapter features a dialogue between Delice Mugabo, a PhD Candidate in Geography at SUNY and Jenny Heijun Wills, an associate professor of English at University of Winnipeg. In their conversation, Mugabo and Wills reflect on how women of color in graduate school are observed and surveilled by white women scholars in ways that encourage interracial and interdisciplinary kinship formation. Drawing on their experiences living and working as intersectional feminist scholars in Canada, Mugabo and Wills gesture to their respective communities and subjectivities—Mugabo, a Black feminist who studied in Quebec; Wills, an Asian adoptee who works in Manitoba—to make sense of the lack of institutionalized Race Studies in Canada, despite a history of student protests.

A Feminist Perspective Analysis of Gender in Cinema of Saudi Arabia

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Gülşah Sarı
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Film Criticism ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Female Director ◽  
Perspective Analysis

In this study, Wadjda (2012), directed by Haifa El Mansur, will be analyzed from a feminist perspective in the context of the concept of gender. Mansur demonstrates to the cinema audience through a 10-year-old girl that women get out of their passive positions and get their rights partially. In this study, firstly the social structure of Saudi Arabia and the position of woman, the concept of gender and feminist film criticism, which is the analysis technique of the film, will be examined and the position of women in Saudi Arabian society will be examined through Wadjda shot by a Saudi female director.

Feminist Film Aesthetics: A Contextual Approach

Hypatia ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Shrage
Keyword(s):  
Film Criticism ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Film Texts ◽  
Classical Hollywood ◽  
Film Aesthetics

This paper considers some problems with text-centered psychoanalytic and semiotic approaches to film that have dominated feminist film criticism, and develops an alternative contextual approach. I claim that a contextual approach should explore the interaction of film texts with viewers' culturally formed sensibilities and should attempt to render visible the plurality of meaning in art. I argue that the latter approach will allow us to see the virtues of some classical Hollywood films that the former approach has overlooked, and I demonstrate this thesis with an analysis of the film Christopher Strong.,

Missing in Action: Violence, Power, and Discerning Agency

Hypatia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa Bierria
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Color Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Missing In Action ◽  
Systems Of Domination

How can black feminist and women of color feminist theoretical interventions help create frameworks for discerning agentic action in the context of power, oppression, and violence? In this paper, I explore the social dimension of agency and argue that intention is not just authored by the agent as a function of practical reasoning, but is also socially authored through others' discernment and translation of her action. Further, when facilitated by reasoning designed to reinforce and rationalize systems of domination, social authoring systematically distorts the intentions of some agents. Although some theorists have argued that those agents whose intentions are not recognized by others are forced to exercise a diminished agency, I contend that this account obscures agency that is practiced despite or through conditions of oppression. As an alternative, I propose that feminist of color theory that examines the structural and existential erasures of women of color maps a conceptual space to help us better discern agentic action that is practiced by those subjects whose acts are defined away from them.

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