Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women : Gender, Space and Mobility in Contemporary Cinema.
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Gender, Space, and Affects in Film -- An Inter-disciplinary Approach to Mobility, Space, and Gender on Screen -- Space-Time and Power-Geometries -- Forms, Bodies, and Affects on Screen -- Affective Cinematic Spaces -- Filmic Affects as Affirmative Aesthetics -- Wilfulness and Affirmative Politics -- Book Structure -- References -- Chapter 2: Women's Road Movies and Affirmative Wandering: Messidor -- References -- Chapter 3: Cars: A Micro-analysis of Space and Bodies in Vendredi soir -- Windows, Wandering Camera, and Magical Realism -- A Space of Intimacy: Recollection Objects and Haptic Cinematic Space -- The Car, a Vehicle of (Im)Mobility -- Affirmative Wandering -- Gendered Contacts, Affective Contacts -- Desiring Bodies -- Rewriting Spatial Habitation: A Place Called Home? -- References -- Chapter 4: Houses and Wilful Women: Wadjda -- Wadjda in Context -- In the Streets of Riyadh -- A Passport to Be Mobile -- Bending Lines -- Wilful to Appear Docile -- A Space of One's Own -- Housing Wilfulness -- References -- Chapter 5: Streets: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Erotic in Head-On -- A Rewriting of Space-Time -- Freedom and the Erotic as Power -- Dance and Diaspora -- Punk and Abjection as Affirmative Forms -- Windows, Hotels, and a Space for Pausing -- Domestic Space and Gender Roles -- References -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Forms of Affirmative Aesthetics -- References -- Index.