Women in images: Shifting structures and discourses in French-language cinema after May 1968.

Title: Women in images: Shifting structures and discourses in French-language cinema after May 1968.
Identifier: AAI9530934
identifier: 9530934
Creator: Yervasi, Carina.
Contributor: Adviser: Royal S. Brown
Date: 1995
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Cinema | Women's Studies | Literature, Romance
Abstract: This dissertation examines images of women in French-language films (French, Belgian, Swiss) by Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alain Tanner, and Agnes Varda. Produced in the wake of the political upheavals of May 1968 and informed by the politics of the women's movement that emerged immediately thereafter, these films confront established patriarchal structures and modes of representation that predominated in traditional cinema. I explore cinematic and literary theories of representation that were developing in the 1970s in such journals as Cahiers du cinema, Screen as well as in French feminist thought. These theories enable me to identify how French-language films of the same period challenge authorized paradigms of modernist image-making and how they reformulate central cinematic and narrative codes. 1970s avant-garde and alternative cinema, I argue, shift the codes of filmic production by working through and against dominant modes of discourse.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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