Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women : : Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema.

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.
©2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (197 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, Space, and Affects in Film
  • An Inter-disciplinary Approach to Mobility, Space, and Gender on Screen
  • Space-Time and Power-Geometries
  • Forms, Bodies, and Affects on Screen
  • Affective Cinematic Spaces
  • Filmic Affects as Affirmative Aesthetics
  • Wilfulness and Affirmative Politics
  • Book Structure
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Women's Road Movies and Affirmative Wandering: Messidor
  • References
  • Untitled
  • Chapter 3: Cars: A Micro-analysis of Space and Bodies in Vendredi soir
  • Windows, Wandering Camera, and Magical Realism
  • A Space of Intimacy: Recollection Objects and Haptic Cinematic Space
  • The Car, a Vehicle of (Im)Mobility
  • Affirmative Wandering
  • Gendered Contacts, Affective Contacts
  • Desiring Bodies
  • Rewriting Spatial Habitation: A Place Called Home?
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Houses and Wilful Women: Wadjda
  • Wadjda in Context
  • In the Streets of Riyadh
  • A Passport to Be Mobile
  • Bending Lines
  • Wilful to Appear Docile
  • A Space of One's Own
  • Housing Wilfulness
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Streets: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Erotic in Head-On
  • A Rewriting of Space-Time
  • Freedom and the Erotic as Power
  • Dance and Diaspora
  • Punk and Abjection as Affirmative Forms
  • Windows, Hotels, and a Space for Pausing
  • Domestic Space and Gender Roles
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Conclusion: Forms of Affirmative Aesthetics
  • References
  • Index.