Overview
Experimental cinema, as well as experimental video practices, have always been art forms widely explored by women. Yet, while the field of cinema studies has devoted research - although only recently - to women involved in narrative and commercial films, as directors, actresses, screenwriters and in other roles of cinema industry, the history of women’s experimental audio-visual production is still little explored and would benefit from being retraced and framed in a wider historical and theoretical perspective. This special issue of Cinéma&Cie is therefore aimed at tracing women’s experimental practices at the intersection of cinema and the arts by intertwining a theoretical and historical approach through the analysis of cases studies from the mid-century up to the present time.
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Author: Sarah Keller ,
Elena Marcheschi ,
Giulia Simi
Publisher: Mimesis International
Imprint: Mimesis International
ISBN: 9788869773129
ISBN 10: 8869773124
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 25 May 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Sarah Keller is Associate Professor of Art and Cinema Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research focuses on experimental forms and feminist issues in cinema. She co-edited the collection Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations, and in her book Maya Deren: Incomplete Control she examines the role of unfinished work, focusing on Deren’s oeuvre. Most recently, she published her book Anxious Cinephilia (2020), which centers on the intertwined role of love and anxiety in encounters with cinema, and she has just completed a manuscript on the career of experimental filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer (forthcoming 2021). Elena Marcheschi is Junior Assistant Professor at University of Pisa where she teaches ‘Cinema and the Arts’ and ‘Art and Multimedia’. Her research, on which she has written books, articles and contributed to essay collections, concerns video art, experimental cinema and forms of video installation, with particular attention to the analysis of the contemporary world, female languages and self-representation. She is part of the editorial staff of Cinéma&CIE. International Film Studies Journal and since 2005 she has been the artistic consultant to INVIDEO, Mostra internazionale di video e cinema oltre (Milan). Her publications include the monographs Videoestetiche dell'emergenza. L'immagine della crisi nella sperimentazione audiovisiva (Kaplan, Torino 2015) and Sguardi eccentrici. Il fantastico nelle arti elettroniche (ETS, Pisa 2012) as well as the edited collection Videogame Cult. Education, art, music (ETS, Pisa 2019).
