Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema
Title | Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Janice Loreck |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 187 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137525088 |
Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of homicidal women in contemporary art and independent cinema. Examining narrative, style and spectatorship, Loreck investigates the power of art cinema to depict transgressive femininity.
The Violent Woman
Title | The Violent Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Hilary Neroni |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2012-02-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0791483649 |
Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.
Film Studies
Title | Film Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Heidi Karriker |
Publisher | Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
Ten essays explore how the roles, representations, and productivity of women are reflected in contemporary world cinema. Some of the topics are the undercurrent of class in Heavenly Creatures, female icons in recent Russian film, and the quest for external validation in female coming-of-age films. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Reel Knockouts
Title | Reel Knockouts PDF eBook |
Author | Martha McCaughey |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0292778376 |
When Thelma and Louise outfought the men who had tormented them, women across America discovered what male fans of action movies have long known—the empowering rush of movie violence. Yet the duo's escapades also provoked censure across a wide range of viewers, from conservatives who felt threatened by the up-ending of women's traditional roles to feminists who saw the pair's use of male-style violence as yet another instance of women's co-option by the patriarchy. In the first book-length study of violent women in movies, Reel Knockouts makes feminist sense of violent women in films from Hollywood to Hong Kong, from top-grossing to direct-to-video, and from cop-action movies to X-rated skin flicks. Contributors from a variety of disciplines analyze violent women's respective places in the history of cinema, in the lives of viewers, and in the feminist response to male violence against women. The essays in part one, "Genre Films," turn to film cycles in which violent women have routinely appeared. The essays in part two, "New Bonds and New Communities," analyze movies singly or in pairs to determine how women's movie brutality fosters solidarity amongst the characters or their audiences. All of the contributions look at films not simply in terms of whether they properly represent women or feminist principles, but also as texts with social contexts and possible uses in the re-construction of masculinity and femininity.
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema
Title | New Blood in Contemporary Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Pisters |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-08-18 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 1474466974 |
The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.
Women Who Kill
Title | Women Who Kill PDF eBook |
Author | David Roche |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2020-02-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1350115606 |
Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism. The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films and series examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina (2015) among others.
Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema
Title | Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | David Greven |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2011-04-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230118836 |
The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation.