Women on the Edge: Twelve Political Film Practices

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 1-25

3. On the Edges of the Authorial Voice: Liv Ullmann’s Faithless, Gendered Authorship, and Ingmar Bergman

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 26-41

4. On the Edges of the Documentary: Jill Craigie’s Political and Aesthetic Sensibilities

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 42-60

5. On the Edges of Ethnography: Kim Longinotto’s Institution of Feminist Discourses

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 61-83

6. On the Edges of Art Cinema: Sally Potter and the Feminist Response

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 84-107

7. On the Edges of Post-Colonialism: Deepa Mehta and Transnational Cinema

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 108-125

8. On the Edges of National Cinema: Sofia Coppola and Female Authorship

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 126-147

9. On the Edges of Geopolitics: Sexual Difference in Ursula Biemann’s Video Essays

   • Sharon Lin Tay

   Pages 148-170

10. Conclusion

    • Sharon Lin Tay

    Pages 171-196

11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-211

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Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers. Moving on from the 1970s feminist adage that the personal is political, Sharon Lin Tay argues that contemporary women's cinema must exceed the personal to be politically relevant and ethically cogent.

• cinema
• feminism
• film
• gender
• geopolitics
• Institution
• intervention
• video
• women

SHARON LIN TAY is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Middlesex University, UK. She is also a curator of new media art and writes about film culture for various publications.

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