Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics

Postfeminist Film and Literary Aesthetics represents a novel study of the textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective, shaping the contours of 4 new modes millennial film/fiction, metamodernism, 'still life' and new cli-fi in which women's work can be read as a distinct aesthetic force

Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze represents a novel and comprehensive study of the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective. This book both defines and helps shape the contours of four fast-growing critically and commercially popular modes-millennial film and fiction, metamodernism, an anti-narrative and decorative realm named here as 'still life', and new cli-fi-in which there is no clear male equivalent or in which women's work can be read as a distinct aesthetic force. As the textual constellation of now is being mapped and its key texts being canonised, this book contributes to the current recentring of aesthetic taste that is occurring in literature, film, and surrounding criticism, making greater space for the appreciation of female aesthetics and for future inquiries in this field.

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Alyce Corbett is a recent graduate of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she earned a Cum Laude Doctorate in English Studies. Her early career research has focused on film and literary aesthetics, postfeminist representations, and contemporary women's writing.

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Postfeminist Film and Literary Aesthetics represents a novel study of the textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective, shaping the contours of 4 new modes millennial film/fiction, metamodernism, 'still life' and new cli-fi in which women's work can be read as a distinct aesthetic force

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Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The Female Gaze

1.1 Searching for the Female Gaze: A New Inquiry Into the Feminine

1.2 Postfeminist Film and Literary Aesthetics: Shaping a 21st-Century Textual Constellation

2. Millennial Speak: The Postfeminist Project of the Self

2.1 Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird (2017): Living Through Something

2.2 Sally Rooney, Normal People (2018): Glittering with Talk

3. Post-Postmodernism: The Postfeminist Reconfiguration of the Real

3.1 Miranda July, Kajillionaire (2020): Transcendentalising the Humdrum

3.2 Ali Smith, How to Be Both (2014): Eroding Narrative Boundaries

4. Still Life: The Postfeminist Abnegation of Plot

4.1 Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation (2003): Designing not Directing

4.2 Rachel Cusk, Outline (2014): Renovating the Novel

5. New Cli-Fi: The Postfeminist Approach To The End Of The World

5.1 Claire Denis, High Life (2018): Contriving Sensation and Strangeness

5.2 Sophie Mackintosh, The Water Cure (2018): Inscribing Femininity in Darkness

6. Conclusions: The Future Of Female Aesthetics

Index