Women’s epistolary cinema: exploring female alterities: epistolary films and epistolary essay films

Ibáñez, Lourdes Monterrubio

doi:10.1080/14680777.2021.1900313

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“…The same year as the creation of Papa comme maman, Chantal Akerman instrumentalised the epistolary device in News from Home, starting a crucial relationship between epistolary cinema and women filmmakers (Monterrubio Ibáñez 2021c, 2021d. She generates an essay film that arises again from the figure of the mother and from a new form of absence in which the gaze that Varda spoke of is the protagonist.…”

Section: From Gaze To Epistolarity and Self-portrait: Alterity And Id...mentioning

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Women’s Essay Films in Francophone Europe. Exploring the Female Audiovisual Thinking Process

Ibáñez

2023

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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This article aims to analyse women's essay films in Francophone Europe, exploring the presence of a gendered audiovisual thinking process, and considering both the formal aspect and the thematic dimension. The research allows the characterisation of a female audiovisual thinking process determined by both self-representation and the vindication of women filmmakers as creators of images and women's topics through the reflection on female alterities. First, the research analyses the enunciative devices used and their evolution-the (self-)portrait, the letter, the diary, the autobiography, autofiction and dialogue-to create essay films whose audiovisual thinking processes are mainly generated within the images through the mise-en-scène, and through the juxtaposition between visual image and sound image. Second, the study analyses the topics addressed, which mostly revolve around gender issues and trace a path that goes from gaze to alterity, intersubjectivity, and sisterhood. Women's gaze makes possible the reflection on female alterities in order to confront or identify with them, leading to the construction of intersubjective spaces for reflection that become artistic practices of sisterhood. Finally, the study concludes women have been delayed in reaching the position of the essayist as a manipulator of images, due to the need to vindicate the figure of the woman filmmaker understood as a creator of images.

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Section: From Gaze To Epistolarity and Self-portrait: Alterity And Id...mentioning

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Women’s Essay Films in Francophone Europe. Exploring the Female Audiovisual Thinking Process

Ibáñez

2023

Quarterly Review of Film and Video

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Feminist Thought and Film: A Review of the Literature

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et al. 2023

2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies on Education &Amp; Research (ICALTER)

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‘We know Charlie’: A case of epistolary education and brave space in The Perks of Being a Wallflower fanfiction

Moore

2024

Journal of Fandom Studies, The

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This article takes up epistolary writing and the chronicling of experiences with and the impact of sexual violence in an example of fanfiction written in response to the classic young adult (YA) trauma novel, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Because this novel explores the impact of childhood sexual abuse, this project posits that two particular fanfiction stories (a fic and its sequel) offers a theorization of Charlie’s letters as a kind of ongoing victim impact statement, which then produces a unique narrative opportunity to create brave space for witnessing experiences of sexual trauma in community. As such, the fanfiction represents a kind of epistolary education wherein Charlie’s letters are positioned as a learning tool and source of feminist development through co-created emotionally supportive experiences. Specifically, how Charlie’s epistolary trauma testimony is responded to by allies and friends Patrick, Sam and Mary Elizabeth in the fanfiction is educative, particularly through their collective employment of two key practices: being generous and being generative in their responses to Charlie’s letters. Their epistolary education then positions them to uniquely process and prepare to reunite with and show up for Charlie as ethical witnesses to his trauma testimony. Thus, these two fanfiction stories function as significant sites for learning about sexual violence, ethically supporting victim-survivors of it, as well as strengthening the characters’ senses of community and selves.

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Women’s epistolary cinema: exploring female alterities: epistolary films and epistolary essay films

Cited by 3 publications

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Women’s Essay Films in Francophone Europe. Exploring the Female Audiovisual Thinking Process

Women’s Essay Films in Francophone Europe. Exploring the Female Audiovisual Thinking Process

Feminist Thought and Film: A Review of the Literature

‘We know Charlie’: A case of epistolary education and brave space in The Perks of Being a Wallflower fanfiction

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