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Sep 26, 2024 · Feminist filmmaker Catherine Breillat is well known for her frank depictions of sexuality and taboo topics in film and for her coming of age works. She faced censorship and controversy during most of her career.
3 days ago · Women have been involved in every facet of filmmaking since the artform began, and have created films that have been and continue to be influential to generations of directors. Yet, many lists of notable film directors overlook them entirely.
Sep 16, 2024 · With an unyielding dedication to truth-telling, Sundar is a dynamic feminist filmmaker and activist, fearlessly challenging sexism, misogyny, and female erasure. Let me introduce you to the provocative and revolutionary world of Vaishnavi Sundar, where the power of the lens converges with the power of change.
Sep 19, 2024 · Isa Lupino, Patty Jenkins, Penny Marshall, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, and Amy Heckerling are just a few of those names and each directing poignant and quality films on a regular basis. Including American female film directors and more, this list of great women in directing has them all.
Sep 9, 2024 · Like many women artists who lived through the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1970s, with its often-splintered positions on equality and representation, Akerman was hesitant to explicitly characterize herself as a “feminist filmmaker” or a “woman director.”
3 days ago · In Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Mari Ruti traces the development of feminist film theory from its foundational concepts such as the male gaze, female spectatorship, and the masquerade of femininity to 21st-century analyses of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, postfeminism, and the revival of "girly" femininity as a cultural ideal ...
New Delhi, Filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh says she discovered Iranian feminist poet Forugh Farrokhzad's works when she was a university student and that gave shape to a desire to visit the country and ...
