Consuming Bodies, Abject Spaces: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Transcultural Expressionism

Mansbridge, Joanna

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-56100-0_5

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“…Ana Lily Amirpour's film takes place in the fictional 'Bad City', and centers around 'The Girl', a vampire who hunts misogynist men at night. In a vein similar to The Babadook, the film's genre-bending style and vague narrative has led to diverse scholarly interpretations: a queer utopia (Abdi and Calafell 2017), a diasporic home (Edwards 2017), 'the border zones of a transcultural America' (Mansbridge 2020) Our dissection of the film begins with an in-depth analysis of the film's setting: the fictional "Bad City" and particularly its streets. To depict this imaginary place, Amirpour used locations in Taft, California, a significant aspect of the film to which we pay particular attention.…”

Section: The Global City and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Nightmentioning

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The Place of Women’s Filmmaking in an Interdisciplinary Architecture Course

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2023

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This paper explores the rich pedagogical potential of women’s filmmaking for interdisciplinary courses that explore the relations between cinema, architecture, and urbanism. While many courses on this subject tend to focus on white male filmmakers (e.g., Alfred Hitchcock, Jacques Tati, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang), in constructing a new version of this elective, I aimed to extensively incorporate women’s filmmaking to the curriculum, especially opting for exemplary films that provide a rich basis to discuss the construction of gender and cinematic space in relation to one other. The course pays sustained, rigorous attention to women as filmmakers, textual subjects, and spectators while discussing topics including domesticity; borders and movement; screening space and spectatorship; cine-museology; national and transnational spaces; animated worldmaking; and digital realisms. Taking the classroom discussions on The Babadook (dir. Jennifer Kent, Australia, 2014) and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (dir. Ana Lily Amirpour, US, 2015) as its case studies, this paper considers how the use of women’s filmmaking in an interdisciplinary course allows students to explore diverse strategies of cinematic representation that deconstruct and reshape gender in connection to the cinematic fabrications of space.

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Section: The Global City and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Nightmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Place of Women’s Filmmaking in an Interdisciplinary Architecture Course

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2023

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Consuming Bodies, Abject Spaces: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Transcultural Expressionism

Cited by 1 publication

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The Place of Women’s Filmmaking in an Interdisciplinary Architecture Course

The Place of Women’s Filmmaking in an Interdisciplinary Architecture Course

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