Gillian Armstrong: Popular, Sensual & Ethical Cinema (Visionaries: Thinking Through Female Filmmakers)

Gillian Armstrong is a prolific and versatile film director whose work spans over five decades, three continents and numerous movie forms. Like other directors acclaimed for their accomplishments across a suite of movie genres, Armstrong makes movies with a distinct and recurring set of concerns. These include a focus on biography or life narrative; an interest in adapting popular 'literary' stories into cinematic forms; charismatic and often eccentric female characters; and issues of social class and exclusion. Committed to creating stories featuring strong female characters, Armstrong has significantly revised period adaptations, biographical story-telling and all forms of documentary, from a feminist perspective. This book argues that Armstrong is a genuine 'auteur' in the classic sense of the term and that her work in small- to mid-budget films has allowed for the emergence of a persistent set of themes and characters.

• | Author: Julia Erhart
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: December 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1474440517
• | ISBN-13: 9781474440516