This project offers a critical overview of how online activities and platforms are becoming an important source for the production and promotion of womens films. Inspired by a transnational feminist framework, Maule examines blogs, websites, online services and projects related to womens filmmaking in an interrogation of the very meaning of womens cinema at the complex intersection with digital technology and globalization. It discusses womens cinema 2.0 as a resistant type of cinematic expression and brings attention to the difficulties inherent in raising and expanding visibility for womens filmic expression within a global sphere dominated by neo-liberalism and post-feminism. The author pays close attention to the challenges and contradictions involved in bringing a niche area of filmmaking and feminist discourse to the broad and diverse communities of the Internet and global media market, while also highlighting the changing forms of media and feminism.
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1 New Technologies of Gender: Women and Film in the Digital Era |
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The Geopolitics of Women's Cinema 2.0 |
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Women's Cinema on the Web as Minor Cinema |
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3 | (3) |
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Feminist Film Discourse in the Digital Sphere |
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6 | (2) |
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Feminist Grass-Roots Practices, Post-Feminism, and Neo-Liberal Economy |
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8 | (4) |
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Digital Platforms and Feminist Film Discourse: An Overview |
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12 | (2) |
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14 | (4) |
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18 | (5) |
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2 Women Make Movies on the Web: Digital Platforms as Alternative Circuits |
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23 | (36) |
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The Internet as a New Resource for Women Filmmakers |
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23 | (1) |
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Digital Networking: The Women in Film and Television International |
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24 | (4) |
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Women in Crowdfunding Production: Emily Best's Seed & Spark |
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28 | (5) |
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Sally Potter: Making Films in the Age of Digital Reproduction |
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33 | (8) |
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Ava DuVernay and the Digital Promotion of African-American Cinema |
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41 | (9) |
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53 | (6) |
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3 Engendering the Global Market: Women's Cinema as a Creative Industry |
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Women's Film Culture on the Web: Contexts and Debates |
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59 | (3) |
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Promoting Women's Cinema Today: Film Festivals as Market Makers |
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62 | (8) |
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Mobilizing Women+'s Cinema: bildwechsel's Digital Archive |
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70 | (9) |
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79 | (7) |
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86 | (3) |
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4 Women and Online Porn in North America: New Media, Old Debates |
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89 | (24) |
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89 | (5) |
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Feminist Porn 2.0: New Practices, New Ethics |
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94 | (2) |
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Anita Sarkeesian and the Pro-/Anti-Porn Feminist Debate |
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96 | (9) |
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105 | (4) |
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109 | (4) |
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5 Conclusions: Women Film Scholars Online |
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Feminist Film Scholarship and Digital Networks |
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Rosanna Maule is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Canada. She is the author of Beyond Auteurism (2008), the main editor of In the Dark Room (2009), and with Guylaine Dionne she co-directed the feature documentary Women Filmmakers: The State of Things (2017). She is part of the research team GRAFICS at Université de Montréal, on the Board of Directors of the Womens Film History International, and an active member of the Global Womens Cinema Project.
