New cluster and book review

We are very happy to announce that the EJLW has published the new cluster 'Women's Lives on Screen' edited by Eugenie Theuer and Julia Novak, and a new book review.

Cluster

Women’s Lives on Screen

Eugenie Theuer, ‘Mattering’ Women’s Lives on Screen: An Introduction. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37910

Belén Vidal, New Women’s Biopics: Performance and the Queering of Herstor/ies. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37911

Bethany Layne, ‘Full cause of weeping’: Affective Failure in The Queen (2006) and The Crown (2019). https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37912

Paulina Korzeniewska-Nowakowska, American Poverty and Social Rejection in Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37913

Timo Frühwirth e.a., ‘For better or for worse, there is history, there is the book and then there's the movie’: Foregrounding and Marginalizing African American Women in the Film Hidden Figures (2016). https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37914

Kate Sutherland, Giving Voice to a Portrait: The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Law in Belle. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37915

Kanchanakesi Warnapala, The Reluctant Wife: Ginnen Upan Seethala and Gendering Revolution. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37916

Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal, The Enduring Influence of Female Special Operations Executive Agent Biopics on Cultural Memory and Representations in France and Great Britain. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37917

Marija Antic, Beyond the Voice of Egypt: Reclaiming Women’s Histories and Female Authorship in Shirin Neshat’s Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017). https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37918

Jaap Kooijman, What’s Whitney Got to Do with It: Black Female Triumph and Tragedy in the 2015 Lifetime Biopic Whitney. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37919

Christina Schönberger-Stepien, Making Her Case: Dramatisation, Feminism, and the Law in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biopic On the Basis of Sex. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37920

 

Women’s Lives on Screen. Creative Section

Maria Hinterkörner, ‘The Great Scene That Never Happened’ – A Screenwriter’s Techniques of Blending Fact and Fiction in Creating a Compelling Character Arc in Biopics. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37921

 

Book review

Christine Fischer, Anne Smith, Ina Lohr (1903-1983). Transcending the Boundaries of Early Music. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37923