The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender

Comprised of 43 innovative contributions, this companion is both an overview of, and intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The essays included here address a variety of geographical contexts, from an analysis of cinema. Islam and women and television under Eastern European socialism, to female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. A special focus is on women directors in a global context that includes films and filmmakers from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North and South America. The collection also offers a solid overview of feminist contributions to thinking on genre from the "chick flick" to the action or Western film, to film noir and the slasher. Readers will find contributions on a variety of approaches to spectatorship, reception studies and fandom, as well as transnational approaches to star studies and essays addressing the relationship between feminist film theory and new media. Other topics include queer and trans* cinema, eco-cinema and the post-human. Finally, readers interested in the history of film will find essays addressing the methodological dimensions of feminist film history, essays on silent and studio era women in film, and histories of female filmmakers in a variety of non-Western contexts.

Kristin Lene Hole is a Professor at Portland State University, teaching on the university’s Film Program. She is the author of Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Nancy (Edinburgh UP, 2015). Her work has appeared in Angelaki and in the edited volume Fashion and Film (Indiana UP, 2011).

Dijana Jelaca teaches in the Humanities Department at the NYC College of Technology. She is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post Yugoslav Cinema (Palgrave 2016). Her interests include transnational feminism, trauma, gender and memory. Her work has appeared in Camera Obscura, Feminist Media Studies and elsewhere.

E. Ann Kaplan is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, where she also founded and directed The Humanities Institute for twenty-seven years. Her recent research focuses on trauma as evident in her co-edited book, Trauma and Cinema (2004) and her 2005 monograph, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature. Her book on Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction continues her research on trauma, and was published in 2015.

Patrice Petro is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also serves as Vice Provost and Director of the Center for International Education. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of eleven books, most recently, After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship (2016) Teaching Film (2012), Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s (2010).