women filmmakers and historical films
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Erhart, Julia
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- directeuren, films, geschiedschrijfsters, vrouwbeelden, historiografie, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Historical films by female directors featuring female characters are often criticised for being too emotional and incapable of expressing real history. Erhart situates women filmmakers' work within a context of other women directors from the UK, the United States, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere. She connects their strategies for repesenting gender in films with exploring the past through the prism of the present. Besides she explores how historiographical concepts like valor, memory and resistance are uniquely re-envisioned within sub-genres including biopics, historical documentaries and holocaust movies.