Published in 2015
114 pages
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and a prolific author on film history, experimental film, women in film, race and class in the cinema, and cultural studies. Her numerous books include A Short History of Film co-authored with Wheeler Winston Dixon and The Experimental Film Reader, co-edited with Wheeler Winston Dixon. Foster is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in film studies at the University of Nebraska. Her documentary on female film directors, The Women Who Made the Movies, is distributed by Women Make Movies, Inc.
What is this book about?
Amy Schumer and Betty White use subversive feminist wit to expose sexism and ageism in film and TV. This is but one example of “disruptive feminism” discussed in this groundbreaking book. Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film offers a revolutionary approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining texts that do not necessarily announce themselves as “feminist,” or “Marxist,” Foster brings a unique critical perspective to a wide variety of films, from the classical Hollywood films of Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino, to the subversive global films of Carlos Reygadas, Claire Denis, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Buñuel, Paul Thomas Anderson, and many others. In highlighting these filmmaker’s abilities to openly challenge everything from class privilege and colonial racism, to sexism, ageism, homophobia and the pathologies of white privilege, Disruptive Feminisms fills a fresh and much-needed critical perspective, that which Foster dubs “disruptive feminism.”
