Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices [Paperback]

Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: A Revised Women's Cinema Through Lynn Hershmann-Leeson's Cyberfeminist Interventions PART I On the Edges of the Authorial Voice: Liv Ullmann's Faithless , Gendered Authorship, and Ingmar Bergman On the Edges of the Documentary: Jill Craigie's Political and Aesthetic Sensibilities On the Edges of Ethnography: Kim Longinotto's Institution of Feminist Discourses On the Edges of Art Cinema: Sally Potter and the Feminist Response PART II On the Edges of Postcolonialism: Deepa Mehta and Transnational Cinema On the Edges of National Cinema: Sofia Coppola and Female Authorship On the Edges of Geopolitics: Sexual Difference in Ursula Biemann's Video Essays Conclusion: Vignettes of A New Feminist Politique: Gisela Sanders Alc?ntara, Guo Xiaolu, Christina McPhee, Liz Miller Notes Bibliography IndexSHARON LIN TAY is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Middlesex University, UK. She is also a curator of new media art and writes about film culture for various publications.