1st Edition
Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics In Search of the Female Gaze
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: The Female Gaze
1.1 Searching for the Female Gaze: A New Inquiry Into the Feminine
1.2 Postfeminist Film and Literary Aesthetics: Shaping a 21st-Century Textual Constellation
2. Millennial Speak: The Postfeminist Project of the Self
2.1 Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (2017): Living Through Something
2.2 Sally Rooney, Normal People (2018): Glittering with Talk
3. Post-Postmodernism: The Postfeminist Reconfiguration of the Real
3.1 Miranda July, Kajillionaire (2020): Transcendentalising the Humdrum
3.2 Ali Smith, How to Be Both (2014): Eroding Narrative Boundaries
4. Still Life: The Postfeminist Abnegation of Plot
4.1 Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation (2003): Designing not Directing
4.2 Rachel Cusk, Outline (2014): Renovating the Novel
5. New Cli-Fi: The Postfeminist Approach To The End Of The World
5.1 Claire Denis, High Life (2018): Contriving Sensation and Strangeness
5.2 Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure (2018): Inscribing Femininity in Darkness
6. Conclusions: The Future Of Female Aesthetics
Index
Biography
Alyce Corbett is a recent graduate of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she earned a Cum Laude Doctorate in English Studies. Her early career research has focused on film and literary aesthetics, postfeminist representations, and contemporary women’s writing.
