TALK: CINEMA, CYBORGS, AND STEREOTYPES: A FEMINIST LENS ON FILM BY NATALIJA ARLAUSKAITĖ

Talk: Cinema, Cyborgs, and Stereotypes: A Feminist Lens on Film

10 November, Sunday | 16:00| Sputnik KinoBar | Free entry
The talk will be followed by screening of short film THE TRIP / REISAS by Rimantas Oičenka (2022, 25′)

What connects cyborgs and musicals, the pleasure of cinema and stereotypes, voice and emancipation?

“To Look and To-be-looked-at”, bringing together texts by Natalija Arlauskaitė and comics by Miglė Anušauskaitė, presents the fundamental concepts of feminist cinema theory. Why are they needed? Because cinema creates, reproduces and changes the image of the world, which is full of stereotypes and all sorts of hierarchies. This book offers a vocabulary that helps to recognize, analyze and (no less importantly!) to laugh at the cinema, the roles it assigns to us and our experiences of watching it. The authors say, “We came up with the idea for this book to make thinking about cinema as fun as watching it is”.

At the presentation of the book, Natalija Arlauskaitė will talk about why she and Migle Anušauskaite thought it made sense to talk about feminist film theory now and from where we are. That is, how Western theory fits in with our own film culture, and how they approached this question when structuring the book.
Biography: Natalija Arlauskaitė is a film and visual studies scholar, professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. Her current academic interests include feminist film theory, Soviet medical imagery, and visual documents of the Leningrad siege. She is an author of “Key-Concepts of Feminist Film Theory” (2010), “Native and Foreign Canons: Film Adaptations between Narrative Theory and Cultural Studies” (2014); “Severe Piece: Photographs of the Collapsed Regimes in Documentary Film” (2020, all Vilnius University Press); ed. w/Lina Kaminskaitė, “In Focus: Women in Lithuanian Cinema” (2021, Lapas), co-author w/Miglė Anušauskaitė, “To Look and To-be-looked-at: Concepts & Comics of Feminist Film Theory” (2023, Lapas).

Link:
https://www.tspmi.vu.lt/en/leidiniai/to-watch-and-to-be-watched-concepts-of-feminist-cinema-theory-and-comics/