| Description |
1 online resource (x, 183 pages) |
| Contents |
The Maternal Imagination of Film and Film Theory -- Guilty as Charged: Feminist Film Theory and the Early Modern Imagination -- "When We Do Not See Something, We Imagine It to Be Much Worse" -- Sound and Vision: The Cinematic Figuration of the Virgin Mary in Le livre de Marie and Je vous salue, Marie -- Natural and experimental births: pregnancy and childbirth in experimental cinema -- Eat the children! -- What are you expecting to see? On Childbirth in visual |
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Chapter 3: . 3.1. The Conception of the Ignorant Spectator -- 3.2. The Maternal Imagination of Film Theory -- 3.3. Incomparable Bodies -- 3.4. "I Had Never Seen Myself Before This Way and I Regarded Myself with Horror" -- Chapter 4: . 4.1. The Image of Virginity -- 4.2. "All of Nature Has Become Corrupt" -- 4.3. "Our Thought May Grow from an Idea that Has Come from Elsewhere, Without Our Knowing Who Has Given It to Us" -- 4.4. "Godard Has Understood Nothing" |
| Summary |
This book challenges common sense understandings of the unconscious effects of cinema and visual culture. It explores the castrating power of the early modern witch and the historical belief that pregnant women could manipulate and distort body image as figurative analogies for feminist theories of objectification and the male gaze. Through developing this history as an impure but lively analogy, this book serves as a provocation against the dominant imagining of objectification. It offers innovative analyses of a wide-ranging selection of films and topics including Joyce Wieland's Water Sark (1964) and its resonance with the works of John Cage and Stan Brakhage; the documentary Histoires d'A (History of Abortion, 1973), which contributed to the successful legalisation of abortion in France; the Hong Kong horror film Dumplings (Jiaozi, 2004), where foetal cannibalism serves up an image of censorship; and the dual productions The Book of Mary (Le livre de Marie) and Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie, 1985) by Anne-Marie Miéville and Jean-Luc Godard that figure a self-reproducing virgin who hears herself while remaining a virgin, unseen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed on October 08, 2020) |
| Subject |
Motherhood in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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Women in popular culture.
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Motherhood in motion pictures
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Women in motion pictures
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Women in popular culture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030458973 |
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3030458970 |
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