Gillian Armstrong: Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474440516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

Julia Erhart

Opis

A commercially successful Australian director of over eighteen feature films and documentaries, including My Brilliant Career (1979), Gillian Armstrong is an early, notable example of a woman director connecting with mass audiences. Armstrong’s films are unique in their aesthetic expression and in the ethical relationships that they depict, framed through the language of gender inclusivity and due in part to her foregrounding of original, complex and nuanced female characters. This important book fills a gap in the literature on women screen practitioners and is a long overdue response to demands for new insight into the work of this significant director.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1: An authorial cinema; Chapter 2: A popular, commercial cinema: Mrs. Soffel, Little Women, Charlotte Gray, Death Defying Acts; Chapter 3: An Australian genre cinema: My Brilliant Career, Oscar and Lucinda, Starstruck; Chapter 4: A sensual cinema: Last Days of Chez Nous, Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst, Women He’s Undressed; Chapter 5: An ethical cinema: High Tide and The Story of Kerry, Josie and Diana; Conclusion: A collaborative cinema