No Gift For Badinage (2020)

​A lockdown advent calendar collated from Instagram posts on @cartography_for_girls during December 2020, mixing together Iris Murdoch’s fictional construct of women, and alternative representations of female subjectivity in film. The film clips are from:

​Bell Book and Candle (1958) Richard Quine
Black Christmas (1974) Bob Clark
Charade (1963) Stanley Donen
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) Charles Vidor
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra
Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese
Meet Me in St Louis (1944) Vincente Minelli
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Peter R. Hunt
Scream Blacula Scream (1973) Bob Kelljan
Silent Night Bloody Night (1972) Theodore Gershuny
The Eiger Sanction (1975) Clint Eastwood
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) Jack Cardiff
The Group (1966) Sidney Lumet
The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick
TNT Jackson (1974) Ciro H. Santiago
White Christmas (1954) Michael Curtiz


The actors are:

​Andrea Martin
Anouska Hempel
Astrid Heeren
Audrey Hepburn
Diana Rigg
Helena Ronee
Janee Michelle
Jeanne Bell
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Pettet
Judy Garland
Julie Ege
Kim Novak
Magot Kidder
Marianne Faithfull
Mona Chong
Olivia Hussey
Rosemary Clooney
Sally Sheridan
Shelly Duvall
Sylvana Henriques
Vera Ellen
Vonetta McGee
Zaheera
Zizi Jean Marie