Marleen Gorris

Sue Thornham is emerita Professor of Film and Media at the University of Sussex. She is author of Passionate Detachments (1997), Feminist Theory and Cultural Studies (2001), Approaches to TV Drama (2004, with Tony Purvis), Women, Feminism and Media (2007), What if I Had Been the Hero? Investigating Women’s Filmmaking (2012) and Spaces of Women’s Cinema (2019). 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).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Resistance, time and women’s filmmaking1. Time and the politics of resistance2. Imagining otherwise3. Revisioning the literary past4. Abject zones and liminal worldsConclusion: Other storiesBibliographyIndex

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.