Female Agencies and Subjectivities in Film and Television

Feride Çiçekoglu holds a Ph.D. in architecture from University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her stint in prison during the military junta of 1980 in Turkey was the inspiration for her first novella, which she later adapted to screen and used as a springboard to build a second academic career in film.

Asli Tunç is a professor of media studies and communication at Department of Media at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. in media and communications at Temple University, USA.

Ebru Thwaites Diken is an assistant professor in the Department of Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey. She holds a a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University, UK.

This volume provides an overview of the landscape of mediated female agencies and subjectivities in the last decade. In three sections, the book covers the films of women directors, television shows featuring women in lead roles, and the representational struggles of women in cultural context, with a special focus on changes in the transformative power of narratives and images across genres and platforms. This collection derives from the editors' multi-year experiences as scholars and practitioners in the field of film and television. It is an effort that aims to describe and understand female agencies and subjectivities across screen narratives, gather scholars from around the world to generate timely discussions, and inspire fellow researchers and practitioners of film and television.

1. Introduction.- 2. Agnès Varda and the Singular Feminine.- 3. Female Agency in Pelin Esmer Films: The Play (2005) and Queen Lear (2019).- 4. The Feminine Indistinction in Susanne Bier's Cinema: The Brothers (2005), In a Better World (2010), Bird Box (2019).- 5. Consuming Bodies, Abject Spaces: Ana Lily Amirpour's Transcultural Expressionism.- 6. Claire Underwood: Feminist Warrior or Shakespearean Villain? Re-visiting Feminine Evil in House of Cards.- 7. The Phenomenology of Orphan Black as Molecular Politics.- 8. 'I will not be bullied into submission': Discussing subjection and resistance in GLOW (2017).- 9. Female Body Language: Cutting, Scarring, and Becoming in HBO's Sharp Objects.- 10. The Strong Female Lead: Postfeminist Representation of Women and Femininity in Netflix Shows, Derya Özkan, Deborah Hardt.- 11. The Technological Turn of the Femme Fatale: The Fembot and Alternative Fates.- 12. Women Remembering: Gender and Genre in Persona and Happy Valley.- 13. Bridal anxieties: Politics of gender, neoconservatism and daytime TV in Turkey.- 14. International Filmmor Women's Film Festival on Wheels: "Women's Cinema, Women's Resistance, Cinema of Resistance."- 15. Machine gaze on women: How everyday machine-vision-technologies see women in films.