Introduction: Women and Space in Contemporary Cinema

Authors

  • Mariana Liz
  • Marina Tedesco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n1.659

Keywords:

Female Filmmakers, Space, Cinema

Abstract

Introductory text to the Special Issue on Women and Space in Contemporary Cinema written by the invited publishers, Mariana Liz and Marina Tedesco.

 

Author Biographies

Mariana Liz

Mariana Liz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ICS-ULisboa, the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, in Portugal. She completed a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London in 2012 and taught at King's, Queen Mary and at the University of Leeds in the UK before moving to Portugal in 2016. She is the author of Euro-Visions (2016) and editor of Portugal's Global Cinema (2018). She coordinated, with Hilary Owen (Oxford/Manchester), the Calouste Gulbenkian funded project Portuguese Women Directors, and is currently working on the screen image of contemporary European cities.

Marina Tedesco

Marina Cavalcanti Tedesco is a filmmaker and cinematographer. She teaches at the Film and Video Department and at the postgraduate programme in Film and Media Studies of Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil). Her research areas include gender and sexuality in the media. She co-edited the books Feminino e plural: mulheres no cinema brasileiro (2017) and Corpos em projeção: gênero e sexualidade no cinema latino-americano (2013). Her publications include a chapter on film in the book Explosão feminista: arte, cultura, política e universidade (2018). She has published on these topics in both Brazilian and international journals.

Adélia Sampaio

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Published

2020-01-22

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020): Women and space in contemporary cinema

Section

Special Section