Ghost riders: Kelly Reichardt, certain women, certain men

Kelly Reichardt pays attention to women's actions and subjectivities, often when they are alone, but not at the expense of men. It takes seeing her films more than once to understand how intricately her characters are pieced together through unexpected shot progressions, a non-linear sensibilit...

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Published inNew review of film and television studies Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 247 - 268
Main Author Bergstrom, Janet
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2024
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
a-sexuality
homelessness
Kelly Reichardt
mise en scène
Native Americans
sexual difference
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Summary:Kelly Reichardt pays attention to women's actions and subjectivities, often when they are alone, but not at the expense of men. It takes seeing her films more than once to understand how intricately her characters are pieced together through unexpected shot progressions, a non-linear sensibility and the overall logic of Reichardt's mise en scène. That so many points in her films lead to 'not knowing' may have something in common with her preference for a-sexuality, a much more radical, subtle project than sex role reversal. Reichardt's body of work, as a whole, operates through a mise en scène of sexual difference that is irreducible to a theme or an overt subject.
ISSN:1740-0309
1740-7923
DOI:10.1080/17400309.2024.2304618