A Woman under the Influence
A body's revolt against domestic space
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2022.36149Keywords:
film analysis, John Cassavetes, improvisation, feminism, bodyAbstract
The article examines the creation process and final form of A woman under the influence (1974) by John Cassavetes, whose invention rests on a poetics of instability. From a more comprehensive discussion of the relationship between the method inaugurated by the filmmaker and the frontier he establishes between cinema and other fields, especially theatre, we then proceeded to an analysis that confronts film with a feminist approach. In film analysis, we will pay attention to the way in which the unstable style of films prolongs, duplicates and unfolds equally unstable dramaturgical realities, which he tended to privilege.
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