{"product_id":"feminism-and-the-cinema-of-experience-9781478031222","title":"Feminism and the Cinema of Experience","description":"From popular films like Greta Gerwig's \u003ci\u003eBarbie\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) to Chantal Akerman's avant-garde classic \u003ci\u003eJeanne Dielman\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe--these and other affects refuse the resolution of feeling good or bad, leaving viewers questioning and disoriented. In \u003ci\u003eFeminism and the Cinema of Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, Lori Jo Marso examines how filmmakers scramble our senses to open up space for encountering and examining the political conditions of patriarchy, racism, and existential anxiety. Building on Akerman's cinematic lexicon and Simone de Beauvoir's phenomenological attention to the lives of girls and women, Marso analyzes film and television by directors ranging from Akerman, Gerwig, Mati Diop, Catherine Breillat, and Joey Soloway to Emerald Fennell, Michaela Coel, Audrey Diwan, Alice Diop, and Julia Ducournau. Through their innovative and intentional uses of camera, sound, editing, and new forms of narrative, these directors use discomfort in order to invite viewers to feel like feminists and to sense the possibility of freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLori Jo Marso is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, Professor of Political Science, and Director of American Studies at Union College. She is author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eW Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183180841234,"sku":"9781478031222","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_44c0c34b-677c-48f3-ba2a-e950397e3052.jpg?v=1744456514","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/feminism-and-the-cinema-of-experience-9781478031222","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}