Women in the Cinemas of Iran and Turkey: As Images and as Image-Makers

ISBN-13: 9781138485112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 346 str.

Gonul Donmez-Colin

Opis

This volume compares the cinemas of Iran and Turkey in terms of the presence and absence of women on both sides of the camera. From a critical point of view, it provides detailed readings of works by both male and female film-makers, emphasising issues facing women's film-making.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. From Inflated Plastic Dolls, Patience Stones, Honour Bearers, Home-Breakers and 'Commodified Others' to Free Agents: Screen Images of Women  2. Women on the Thorny Trail of Image-Making  3. Post-Traumatic Cinema and Gender  4. Narratives of Resistance  5. Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries  6. Border-Crossings and 'Deterritorialized' Film-Makers  7. His Films: Abbas Kiarostami and Nuri Bilge Ceylan  Afterword

O autorze

Gönül Dönmez-Colin is a film scholar specializing in the cinemas of the Middle East and Central Asia. She is the author of The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema, Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging, Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Filmmakers from the Middle East and Central Asia, Women, Islam and Cinema amongst other works.