Disruptive Feminisms

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is Willa Cather Chair in English and Film in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.

"I think Disruptive Feminists is superior in many ways, just simply a jewel. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's peculiar and enchanting magic is to blend keen socio-critical attention with an unyielding poetic sensitivity to the world of hints, provocations, resonances, and allusions. Through the films examined here, and through Foster's eyes, gender, class, and race fly beyond rhetoric and come alive." - Murray Pomerance, Ryerson University, USA and author of The Eyes Have It: Cinema and The Reality Effect "This book passionately advocates a cinema that challenges injustice and oppression across the globe by disrupting 'normative values' and 'received notions' of race and class as well as gender. Not least of the book's strengths is its illumination of culturally and aesthetically diverse works ranging from Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux (2012) and Claire Denis' No Fear, No Die (1990) to Betty White's television programs of the 1950s." - Ira Jaffe, Professor Emeritus, Former Chair, Department of Cinematic Arts, University of New Mexico, USA

• Introduction 1. Feminist Disruptions in Postcolonial Film 2. Queering Repression and Gender Codes 3. Malignant Narcissism and the Toxic Family 4. Embracing Mature Female Eroticism