The twenty-first century has seen an increase in scholarly interest in the discursive
construction of women film practitioners, yet much of this literature focusses on women at the …

In this essay I explore a cluster of recent female-authored European art films from different
national contexts that draw on pregnant embodiment as a hyperbole of contagion reclaimed …

This chapter,“The cinepoetry of Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men: Female histories and
the cinematic women's space of the Garden,” provides an analysis of Shirin Neshat's film …

The first 20 years of the twenty-first century have seen a flourishing of research about
women film and media creatives, their industrial positioning, and media output in industries …

Since September 2022, when mass protests erupted in Iran in reaction to the tragic death of
a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Jina Amini, who was arrested in Tehran for wearing her …

This paper consists of an examination of how the female body is depicted according to the
male and female gaze in feminist film theory, and further discuss their relation to the …

This article explores how Agnès Varda's short films Ydessa, les ours et etc…(2004) and
Ulysse (1983) examine the role of the photograph in relation to memory and the past …

By drawing on postcolonial feminist discourse and Hamid Naficy's (2001) notion of
'accented'cinema, in particular his approach of combining the interstitial position of exilic and …

It is nothing new to say that the Western is a male-dominated genre, measured by its
practitioners, presumed audiences, and the characters it represents. However, the genre …

When she directed My Brilliant Career in 1979, Gillian Armstrong became the first woman to
make a feature film in Australia in over 40 years. Today, she is a commercially successful …