Women's Lives on Screen

‘Mattering’ Women’s Lives on Screen: An Introduction

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.37910

Keywords:

women’s biopics, ‘mattering’, gender, genre

Abstract

The aim of this introduction is to provide a context for the articles that follow in this cluster on Women’s Lives on Screen. Starting with some reflections on how biopics can matter to audiences, I propose the use of ‘mattering’ as a concept for the study of women’s biopics which helps consider their objectification of women as biographical ‘material’ on screen in tandem with their emancipatory refiguring of women as biographical subjects that are made to matter. The introduction also offers a brief overview of biopic studies as they relate to the subject of women’s lives on screen. It ends by sketching the breadth of topics covered in this cluster with a summary of the eleven articles.

Author Biography

Eugenie Theuer, University of Vienna

Eugenie Theuer is a film scholar and film curator. In her doctoral dissertation at the University of Vienna, she studies the metareferential turn in contemporary Hollywood as a modernist response to cinema’s digital transition. Her research has focused on contemporary cinema and Hollywood history. In her curatorial practice, she is interested in Austrian cinema, particularly the Jewish presence in Austrian film, and the work of women filmmakers.

Published

2021-09-08

Issue

Vol. 10 (2021): EJLW

Section

Women's Lives on Screen

Copyright (c) 2021 Eugenie Theuer

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