Where is She – the Author?
Abstract
The article is a review of the book Refleksje zza kamery. Reżyserki o kinie i formie filmowej [Reflections from Behind the Camera: Female Directors on Cinema and Film Form] (2022) by Małgorzata Radkiewicz, which presents the theoretical work of six female film artists: Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968), Germaine Dulac (1882-1942), Maya Deren (1917-1961), Laura Mulvey (born 1941), Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), and Alexandra Juhasz (born 1964). The author focuses on presenting these artists’ selected texts in detail and introducing readers to their reflections on film. Radkiewicz declares that her goal is to emphasize their presence and importance in the history of film thought. However, the book lacks a critical approach that would allow for a greater dialogue between individual chapters and, within them, for references to the contemporary context and present-day theory.
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Alice Guy-Blaché, Germaine Dulac, Laura Mulvey, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Alexandra Juhasz, women’s cinemaReferences
Radkiewicz, M. (2022). Refleksje zza kamery. Reżyserki o kinie i formie filmowej. Kraków – Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego – Fundacja Okonakino – Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie.
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Iwona Kurzi.kurz@uw.edu.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7180-8670
Culture critic and historian, film scholar. She deals with the history of modern Polish culture in the visual perspective, theory of visual culture, and the issues of body and gender. Recent books (co-edited and co-authored): Kultura wizualna w Polsce [Visual Culture in Poland] (2017), Ekspozycje nowoczesności. Wystawy a doświadczanie procesów modernizacyjnych w Polsce 1821-1929 [Expositions of Modernity: Exhibitions and Experiencing Modernization Processes in Poland 1821-1929] (2017) and Ślady Holokaustu w imaginarium kultury polskiej [Traces of the Holocaust in the Imaginarium of Polish Culture] (2017). She writes for Kino and Dwutygodnik.
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