Shifting the Frame: Women and Authority in Japanese Cinema
Aleix Rodríguez Gracia Japanese cinema travels easily across borders. Its auteurs circulate through Cannes, Venice, and Berlin; its studios command global visibility; its aesthetics are meticulously studied and archived. From afar, it presents itself as a tradition of striking internal consistency, one that has absorbed modern transformations while maintaining a distinct cultural lineage. Such consistency…
Unlikely Superstars: Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Greer Garson and Madame Curie (1943)
Peter Krämer Madame Curie (1943) was the first ever Hollywood movie about a major female scientist. Indeed, the film’s subject is the most famous of all female scientists, and the woman playing her in the film was Hollywood’s biggest star at that time. Born in 1867 in Warsaw as Maria Salomea Skłodowska, the woman who came to be…
Passionate Detachments: The Films of Laura Mulvey
Adam Field There’s a striking moment in Laura Mulvey’s first film Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974) in which the camera seems to float away from her co-director (and then-partner) Peter Wollen as he walks around the garden of an empty house delivering a lecture on the mythical Amazon queen and patriarchal myths of warrior women. Wollen…
Feeling Ourselves Seeing: Spice, ice and the female gaze in Heated Rivalry
Ki Wight Joey Soloway’s 2016 Toronto International Film Festival talk titled ‘The Female Gaze’ established that a story world can be created beyond the well-worn objectifying male gaze, one that prioritizes a visual depiction of emotional awareness, what they call a ‘feeling seeing’ (17:35). This feeling that is elicited in the viewing process occurs because…
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