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Envisioning Feminist Genre Film: Relational Epistemology, Catharsis, and Erotic Intersubjects

Hobson, Amanda Jo
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1072-2480
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1604074749500538

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Arts).
Envisioning Feminist Genre Film: Relational Epistemology, Catharsis, and Erotic Intersubjects addresses the ways in which feminist filmmakers create narratives that unravel masculinist power paradigms in order to demonstrate different approaches to knowledge production and subjectivity as established through erotic, relational, and feminist dialogism, which foregrounds an ideology that individually and culturally we shape language through interactive and collaborative methods. This study delves into how these feminist films offer the filmmakers and viewers cathartic and pedagogical experiences to explore trauma as well as navigate expanding conceptions of gender, sexual, and relationship diversities. The focus of this project is to examine the impact of including the diverse voices and experiences of marginalized people into the modes of film production through on- and off-screen roles, arguing that these creators’ ontological and experiential frames establish structures for the exploration of feminist and queer theories. While attentive to the prior approaches of feminist and queer theories when applied to film, I articulate the ways feminist filmmakers create specifically feminist films and how constructing narratives based on feminist ideologies unlocks opportunities for undoing and transforming gender and sexuality. Methodologically using close visual textual analsysis of feminist genre films, my dissertation delves into feminist film noir, queer melodrama, horror, and pornography to demonstrate how genre impacts the tools and approaches feminist filmmakers use to interogate and establish relational epistemologies in order to envision erotic intersubjectivity, as a part of the ongoing process of articulating the sovereign sexual subjecthood of the individual.
Erin Schlumpf, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Andrea Frohne, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jennie Klein, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
U. Melissa Anyiwo, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
312 p.
Aesthetics; Film Studies; Gender; Gender Studies; Glbt Studies; Womens Studies
feminist theory; genre; film; feminist genre film; queer theory; film noir; horror film; melodrama; pornography; feminist pornography; queer pornography; erotic; catharsis

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  • Hobson, A. J. (2020). Envisioning Feminist Genre Film: Relational Epistemology, Catharsis, and Erotic Intersubjects [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1604074749500538

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hobson, Amanda. Envisioning Feminist Genre Film: Relational Epistemology, Catharsis, and Erotic Intersubjects. 2020. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1604074749500538.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hobson, Amanda. "Envisioning Feminist Genre Film: Relational Epistemology, Catharsis, and Erotic Intersubjects." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1604074749500538

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