Ambiguous Cinema From Simone De Beauvoir To Feminist Filmphenomenology Kelli Fuery by Kelli Fuery 9781399504256, 1399504258 instant download after payment.

Utilises women’s independent cinema to explore Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity in film experience

Contributes to the growing field of feminist film-phenomenology

Foregrounds Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of ambiguity within women’s cinema as a means to think through turbulent emotional experience

Uses key feminist phenomenologies to consider independent women’s cinema

Puts Beauvoir’s ideas into conversation with contemporary women phenomenologists showing the range and reach of her ideas for film-philosophy

Includes diverse examples of films and filmmakers

Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity became a cornerstone of her philosophy and influenced a radical rethinking of freedom well into the twenty-first century. In Ambiguous Cinema, Fuery examines Beauvoir’s notion of ambiguity in relation to film experience, exploring both the legacies and limits of her existentialist ethics through a range of films by independent women filmmakers, including Joanna Hogg, Liliana Cavani, Debra Granik, Cheryl Dunye, Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Lynne Ramsay and Céline Sciamma.
In doing so, Fuery deftly demonstrates the currency and relevancy of Beauvoir’s ideas to contemporary debates in film-philosophy and feminist thought by examining how these women filmmakers navigate turbulent themes such as moral choice, power, adolescence, love, trauma and motherhood. Reimagining Beauvoir’s idea of ambiguity within the context of film studies, Fuery asks that we confront and embrace difficult emotional situations so that we might realise an authentic, if indeterminate, freedom through our cinematic experiences.