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Deborah Levy on Francesca Woodman, Lee Miller, Paula Rego, Leonora Carrington

The Great Women Artists

CHAPTER

What Is the Female Body in a Film?

Francesca woodman is always, unfortunately, frozen at the age of 22. She's looking at representation and how to represent the female body writ sor i might say, well, how do you female character? I often ask myself this, and inso many films, i think, what are the women in this film here to do, apart from serveice everyone else's desires and be saxi and be desired too? You know nothing about them. And apparently just being desired is to know a lot about them. So if we un to a female character, her subjectivity, she has desire. And already, you can smell the smoke when you're writing. Already it gets complicated

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