The Semiotics of Change: Re-writing the Female Body in Contemporary Tunisian Cinema
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Marzia M. Caporale is Associate Professor of French and Italian at the University of Scranton. Her research specializes in French and Francophone Women‘s literature and cinema. Some of her publications on novel and film include: “What Future for Women? Reconstructing Feminine Space in Post-independence Algerian Cinema,” in MIFLC Review 14 (2007-8); “The Cinematic Gaze as Social Activism: Yamina Benguigui, from Documentary to Fiction,” in Al-Raida: The Journal of the Lebanese American University‘s Institute for Women‘s Studies in the Arab World 124 (2009); “Escaping Matriarchal Power: Rebellion and Transgression in Calixthe Beyala‘s C‘est le soleil qui m‘a brûlée and Femme nue femme noire,” in Women in French Studies, Cooperation and Competition in Communities of Women, Special Issue (2010); “We are not in Hollywood Anymore: Female Representation and Spatial Relations in Jacques Doillon‘s film Raja,” in Rewriting Texts, Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Studies and Motifs in Literature (Eds. Leslie Bolt, Corrado Federici, Ernesto Virgulti. New York: Peter Lang, 2010); “To Break the Looking-glass: Writing a Mother‘s Aging, Illness, and Death in Annie Ernaux‘s Une femme and ‘Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit,‘” in As Time Goes by: Portraits of Age in French Literature (Ed. Joy Charnley. Cambridge: CSP, 2013); “Women (mis)reading Religious Texts in Karin Albou‘s films La petite Jérusalem and Le chant des mariées,” in Women in French Studies: Les femmes et la lecture, Special issue. (2013). She is currently working on an article on French-Ivorian novelist and painter Veronique Tadjo.
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