[ecrea] new book: Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films

*New Book:/Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical 
Films/

Julia Erhart

Library of Gender and Popular Culture, IB Tauris, 2018

Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events 
like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the 
expression of gender. Films by female directors featuring female 
protagonists appear to receive particularly harsh treatment and are 
often criticised for being too ‘emotional’ and incapable of expressing 
‘real’ history. Through her examination of films from the United States, 
Europe, Australia and elsewhere, Julia Erhart makes powerful connections 
between the representational strategies of women directors such as 
Kathryn Bigelow, Ruth Ozeki and Jocelyn Moorhouse and their concerns 
with exploring the past through the prism of the present. She also 
compellingly explores how historiographical concepts like valour, 
memory, and resistance are uniquely re-envisioned within sub-genres 
including biopics, historical documentaries, Holocaust movies, and 
movies about the ‘War on Terror’. /Gendering History on Screen/ will 
make an invaluable contribution to scholarship on historical film and 
women’s cinema.

“Drawing on insightful readings of a diverse array of films including 
Monster, Nadar, La rafle/The Round Up and Zero Dark Thirty, Erhart has 
crafted an eminently readable study of how female directors reshape 
historical film to make room for women’s perspectives.”

//

-Julianne Pidduck, University of Montreal and author of /Contemporary 
Costume Film/

“*In /Gendering History on Screen/, the first book-length study of its 
kind, Julia Erhart persuasively argues that innovative films directed by 
women have transformed the genre of the historical film. Trans-national 
in focus and expansive in its consideration of genre and sub-genre, 
Erhart's book offers fresh and provocative ways of thinking about what 
counts as a history film and about the multitude of differences gender 
makes to the experience of history on screen. The book fills a gap in 
cinema studies and will doubtless inspire other scholars to follow in 
its path.”***

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-*Susan Linville, University of Colorado at Denver, author of /History 
Films, Women, and Freud’s Uncanny/ and /Feminism, Film, Fascism: Women’s 
Auto/biographical Film in Postwar Germany/*

For inquiries about reviewing or general comments, please contact 
(julia.erhart /at/ flinders.edu.au) <mailto:(julia.erhart /at/ flinders.edu.au)>

https://ibtauris.com/Books/The-arts/Film-TV--radio/Gendering-History-on-Screen-Women-Filmmakers-and-Historical-Films?menuitem= 



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