Global Art Cinema and Transnational Feminist Authorship

Through a historically integrated scrutiny of film authorship, this book examines how women directors have achieved success by negotiating art cinema’s tension between elitism and political subversiveness. Focusing on a specific film from each of the chosen directors, the book explores how art cinema enables women directors’ mobility and creative experimentation in a post-national cultural landscape. It therefore allows the reader to evaluate the cumulative effect of female-authored films in enhancing transnational feminist discourses that expose and challenge power hierarchies worldwide.