The Intertextual Stardom of Iris: Winslet, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer’s Disease

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Editorial 9
4. Preface 10
5. Acknowledgments 15
6. Introduction: 1970s Feminist Film Theory and the Obsolescent Object 17
7. PART I New Perspectives: Images and the Female Body
8. Disconnected Heroines, Icy Intelligence: Reframing Feminism(s) and Feminist Identities at the Borders Involving the Isolated Female TV Detective in Scandinavian-Noir 29
9. Lena Dunham’s Girls: Can-Do Girls, Feminist Killjoys, and Women Who Make Bad Choices 44
10. Destroy Visual Pleasure: Cinema, Attention, and the Digital Female Body (Or, Angelina Jolie Is a Cyborg) 54
11. The Intertextual Stardom of Iris: Winslet, Dench, Murdoch, and Alzheimer’s Disease 65
12. PART II Theory in Contemporary Contexts
13. Imagining Safe Space in Feminist Pornography 79
14. Uncommon Sensuality: New Queer Feminist Film/Theory 86
15. The Promise of Touch: Turns to Affect in Feminist Film Theory 97
16. Sound and Feminist Modernity in Black Women’s Film Narratives 111
17. PART III History and Practice
18. The “New” Experimentalism? Women In/And/On Film 125
19. Conditions of Activism: Feminist Film Activism and the Legacy of the Second Wave 141
20. US Independent Women’s Cinema, Sundance Girls, and Identity Politics 149
21. PART IV Contextualizing History: New Frontiers in Feminist Journals
22. Suddenly, One Summer: Frauen und Film since 1974 161
23. (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura 169
24. PART V Discussions: Dialoguing Difference and Extremity in Contemporary Cinemas
25. Film, Corporeality, Transgressive Cinema: A Feminist Perspective 187
26. Disconnection Notices: Interview with Miranda July 203
27. Notes 209
28. General Bibliography 239
29. Notes on Contributors 259
30. Index of Names 265
31. Index of Film Titles 273