Diese Reihe taucht in die visionäre Welt von Filmemacherinnen ein, die das Kino neu gestalten. Sie erforscht ihre innovativen Ansätze, einzigartigen Perspektiven und entscheidenden Beiträge zur Filmsprache und Erzählung. Die Leser entdecken mutige Schöpferinnen, die Grenzen verschieben und einen unauslöschlichen Eindruck in der Filmgeschichte hinterlassen. Es ist eine Feier der Kreativität, des Pioniergeistes und des bleibenden Einflusses von Frauen auf die Leinwand.
A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins's films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribution to each of these canons.
The writer Marguerite Duras was a key figure in post-war French cinema, pioneering innovations such as the disjunction of film and image, and the primacy given to voices, silence and music. Her multisensorial approach opened up new spaces for the female experience to be expressed. Although she worked with some of the best French visual technicians and musicians of her time, critiques have often neglected the visual and sonic aesthetics of her films, and their effects on spectators. Drawing on theories of embodiment and spectatorship, this book analyses the tactility and multisensoriality of Duras' films, and how they relate to her female-centred perspective.