期刊名称：Alphaville : Journal of Film and Screen Media
印刷版ISSN：2009-4078
电子版ISSN：1286-4986
出版年度：2022
期号：22
DOI：10.33178/alpha.22.13
语种：English
出版社：University College Cork
摘要：With Spaces of Women’s Cinema: Space, Place and Genre in Contemporary Women’s Filmmaking, influential feminist scholar Sue Thornham offers an academically rich and inspiring book exploring a distinctively female directorial authorship in cinema. Thornham engages with a wide range of critical and theoretical texts, from feminist, to cultural, sociological and philosophical works. Her rethinking of space, place and genre is a timely framework through which to explore the shifts occurring in the representation of seemingly fixed gender categories that have traditionally structured film’s generic conventions and the image of women in art, literature and cinema. This book is divided into thematically broad chapters titled: “Wilderness Spaces”, “City Spaces”, “Interior Spaces”, “Border Spaces” and “Double Spaces: The Landscape of Adaptation”. In each, Thornham critically assesses how contemporary women’s filmmaking has innovatively and rigorously repositioned women’s role and recast their relational qualities within the heterogeneous topographies of contemporary cinema. Thus, she evokes aesthetics of “real”, metaphorical and symbolical space and place, where both definitions coexist and intersect in women’s cultural practice; their creativity often unveiling interstitial, yet affirmatively inhabited, environments.
