A comparison of two films in which the voices of dead women question death as the ultimate silencing during the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil.
...Critical Reflection
Always radical, always engaged, always personal. Either scholarly or polemic writing that engages with feminist visual culture and feminist theory and history from a contemporary perspective. Our authors provide ground for reassessment of existing paradigms or subversive recuperation and reinterpretation.
Byington links images of Ophelia’s death to Sharon Tate’s fandom to show how both echo anxieties about mortality and the post-Anthropocene.
...Freibert explores how Dwein Baltazar’s Oda sa Wala (2018) cultivates themes of collectivity across the life-death divide.
...Using poetic performance, Swingler shows how dead white women in Nocturnal Animals are haunted by colonial and extractivist violence.
...Focusing on the ‘dying mothers sub-genre’, the two authors ponder the meaning of Black women’s bodies’ absence in film.
...Black argues that visuals in rural noir texts tend to exploit forests and green spaces as malevolent mise-en-scène to femicide.
...Gardner and Miller argue that women’s fate in the Netflix series You depends on their status as ‘good’ mothers, lovers, and wives.
...Guiol analyses the objectifying representations of Tennysonian heroines in the works of Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw.
...Hall explores how spectral images of female corpses in Antichrist and Midsommar depict a persistent and wilful refusal to remain buried.
...Deboeck investigates the trope of the kept mother’s corpse and how, despite the maternal blame, it resists the male gaze.
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Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
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