Sue Thornham Marleen Gorris recensie, review en informatie boek over de Nederlandse filmregisseur en haar films. Op 31 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Edinburgh University Press in de reeks Visionairies het boek over Marleen Gorris de uit Nederland afkomstige filmregisseuse. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Sue Thornham Marleen Gorris recensie en review

• “Sue Thornham masterfully illuminates and explores the feminist filmmaking of Marleen Gorris. Through accessible chapters, she persuasively demonstrates how Gorris’ films embody a feminist practice of resistance, rooted in a shared sense of vulnerability and a deep commitment to care and community.” (Anneke Smelik, Professor of Visual Culture, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
• “A superb and lucid study of Marleen Gorris, whose work has not yet received the critical attention it deserves! Deftly integrating cultural history, theory and formal analysis, Thornham traces the message of female survival and feminist resistance that runs through Gorris’s powerful and inspiring films.” (Kathleen Karlyn, University of Oregon)

Marleen Gorris

Practices of Resistance

• Auteur: Sue Thornham
• Soort boek: filmboek
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Edingburgh University Press
• Reeks: Visionairies
• Verschijnt: 30 mei 2025
• Uitgave: paperback
• Prijs: £ 19,99
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over Marleen Gorris de Nederlandse filmregisseuse

Examines Dutch director Marleen Gorris’s cinematic oevre through feminist theories of vulnerability, resistance, time and space.

Dutch director Marleen Gorris is known chiefly for two films: A Question of Silence (1982), her fiercely feminist first film, in which three women meet by chance in a women’s clothing boutique and ritually murder its male owner; and Antonia’s Line (1995), her fourth film and winner of the 1996 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which traces four generations of Antonia’s female ‘line’ in the matriarchal community she establishes in postwar rural Holland. Both have been extensively discussed, though rarely together, and appear on university syllabuses. Her second Dutch language film, Broken Mirrors (1984), and her five films in English, however, have received far less, and in some cases no critical attention.

Using feminist reformulations of ideas of vulnerability and resistance, this first book-length study of her films examines their revisionings of narrative, time and space, and the possibilities they present of other narratives, other subjectivities and other relationships.

• The first book length study of Gorris’s films
• Revisits her films in light of recent developments in feminist philosophy
• Brings to critical attention films not previously examined
• Traces the development of her vision across the whole period of her filmmaking
• Examines Gorris as a major but now neglected feminist filmmaker

Sue Thornham is emerita Professor of Film and Media at the University of Sussex. She is author of a books on feminst topics and she is also author of numerous articles on feminist theory and film and television texts, and editor of three key collections, Feminist Film Theory: A Reader (1999), Media Studies: A Reader (3rd edition, 2009) and Film and Gender (2014).

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