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Critics regularly use the term "provocateur" to describe controversial film directors. Although most individuals who attract this term are men, there is a long and largely unexamined history of female auteurs who shock and unsettle their viewers. Provocation in Women's Filmmaking: Authorship and Art Cinema investigates how women directors participate in the tradition of provocative art cinema. Focusing on the post-millennium films of auteurs such as Lisa Aschan, Catherine Breillat, Jennifer Kent, Isabella Eklöf, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Claire Denis, Anna Biller and Athina Rachel Tsangari, this book considers the aesthetics and strategies of women's provocative filmmaking in contemporary cinema. Challenging the gendering of provocation as a hyper-masculine mode of authorship, the book uncovers an enticing and complex array of divisive works by women.
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction
Sexuality and Obscenity: From Catherine Breillat to Lisa Aschan
On Not Looking Away: Rape in the Films of Jennifer Kent and Isabella Eklöf
The Provocations of the Pretty: The Films of Lucile Hadžihalilović
Pursuing Transgression: Claire Denis's Taboo Intimacies
Posing as an Innocent: Irony, Sincerity and Anna Biller
Vaguely Disturbing: Humour in the Films of Athina Rachel Tsangari
Conclusion NotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex
