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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Feminist Cinema"”.
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
The history of Lebanese cinema can be traced back to the late 1920s, but women film directors only became fully active from the mid-1970s, coinciding with the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). The war gave rise to a new generation of filmmakers who wanted to document and portray the …
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Lebanese Cinema as Resistance: Nadine Labaki’s Rejection of Orientalism and Reclamation of Female Identity
… Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema is examined in relation to Labaki’s films, as I argue the films resist stereotypical representations of women that objectify them, and as such, is contributing to feminist filmmakers before her, and to feminist critics like Mulvey. The …
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The Rape-Revenge Genre in the Digital Age of Heightened Visibility: The Rise of Female Storytellers and Fourth-Wave Feminism
<p>The rape-revenge cinema genre has continued to evolve since its initial emergence in the 1970s. Many of the most popular films belonging to the genre produced in the 1970s, like Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave (1978) or Wes Craven’s directorial debut The Last House on the Left (1972), have …
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Unfinished Business: The New Wave of Women's Horror Cinema
… Business: The New Wave of Women’s Horror Cinema,” responds to early considerations in feminist horror studies via the recent surge of horror films directed by women filmmakers for a primarily female audience. Placing this new wave of horror cinema in dialogue with the canonical works of …