Top 100 films directed by women: What is the ‘female gaze’? - BBC
WEBNov 27, 2019 · The 100 greatest films directed by women. Female directors offer a different viewpoint on adolescence, poverty – and seduction, argues Anna Smith, exploring the films that topped our poll of...
Aesthetics in Film – The Female Gaze – The Oxford Student
WEBMar 11, 2021 · In the aesthetic presentation of narrative cinema, the ‘male gaze’ is manifested in three ways: that of the man behind the camera, that of the male characters within the film, and that of the spectator of the image.
The Feminine Gaze: Exploring the Works of Sofia Coppola
WEBIn her films, Sofia Coppola has a unique way of using color and aesthetics to convey the feminine perspective. Her use of soft colors, delicate fabrics, and graceful camera movements all contribute to the portrayal of femininity in her movies.
10 Best Dark Feminine Aesthetic Movies You Must Watch at …
WEBLooking for a dark and twisted cinematic experience? Check out these 10 dark feminine aesthetic movies that will stay with you long after.
Sofia Coppola: A Cinema of Girlhood - Offscreen
WEBJun 6, 2017 · Elaine Lennon reviews Fiona Handyside’s book on the films of Sofia Coppola, and couches her work as “an affective cinema about girlhood in an era of postfeminism which privileges girlish experience.”
Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure - Frames Cinema ...
WEBIn Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure (2019), Anna Backman Rogers disrupts this reductive consensus by demonstrating that the pretty image possesses the radical potential as an aesthetic feminist form and language, which is worthy of significant academic consideration and study.
Prolegomenon | Film Quarterly | University of California Press
WEBSep 1, 2021 · Anger, Aesthetics, and Affective Witness in Contemporary Feminist Cinema. Film Quarterly (2021) 75 (1): 10–22. Kathleen McHugh explores the complex functions of women’s anger in the work and aesthetic circuitry—culture, texts, audience, reviewers—of contemporary feminist filmmakers.
Deracination, Disembowelling and Scorched Earth Aesthetics: …
WEBSep 14, 2016 · For Jane Gaines, the “scorched earth” aesthetics of feminist counter-cinema was the formal equivalent of a “politically correct” feminist sexuality: “Upholding feminist principles right down the line…The camera, like the lover, had to be respectful and gentle, not dominating or probing”.
Sofia Coppola’s Cinema: Juxtaposing Feminine Style with Feminist ...
WEBJul 2, 2018 · Sofia Coppola uses her soft “feminine” cinematic style in order to shed light on the dark themes that she explores in her films. As a female director, Coppola is often at risk of being dismissed as superficial because she utilises overtly feminine traits in her films.
Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinkinc Women’s Cinema
WEBAbstract. Then Silvia Bovenschen in 1976 posed the question ‘Is there a feminine aesthetic?’, the only answer she could give was. yes and no: ‘Certainly there is. if one is talking about aesthetic awareness and modes of sensory perception.