Feminism at the Movies

Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema
Herausgeber: Radner, Hilary; Stringer, Rebecca

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Produktbeschreibung

Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today's changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities. The volume contains essays by following contributors: Taunya Lovell Banks, Heather Brook, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Michael DeAngelis, Barry Keith Grant, Kelly Kessler, Hannah Hamad, Christina Lane (with Nicole Richter), JaneMaree Maher, David Hansen-Miller (with Rosalind Gill), Gary Needham, Sarah Projansky, Hilary Radner, Rob Schaap, Yael D Sherman, Michele Shreiber, Janet Staiger, Peter Stapleton, Rebecca Stringer, Yvonne Tasker, and Ewa Ziarek.

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Feminism at the Movies offers an overview of central issues in feminist film criticism by analyzing over twenty popular films produced in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The volume focuses primarily on issues of femininity, but also includes a section on portrayals of masculinity in the face of changing gender roles. The international feminist media scholars in this collection aim to show how gender is represented in a wide range of popular films, and through a wide variety of approaches, such as industry studies, queer studies, masculinity studies, psychoanalysis and poststructuralism. Each essay offers an analysis of a movie in a contemporary film genre, from chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, action adventure, "indie" flicks, and "women lawyer" films. Within their essays, many contributors explore not only the ways in which films portray gender identity, but also how popular films can act as a social force to influence gender politics in everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780415895873
• ISBN-10: 0415895871
• Artikelnr.: 33258215

Autorenporträt

Hilary Radner, Rebecca Stringer

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Re-Vision"?: Feminist Film Criticism in the Twenty-first
Century, Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer
I. Masculinity in Question
1. "The First Bond Who Bleeds, Literally and Metaphorically": Gendered
Spectatorship for 'Pretty Boy' Action Movies, Janet Staiger
2. Queer Memories and Universal Emotions: A Single Man (2009), Michael
DeAngelis
3. "Lad Flicks": Discursive Reconstructions of Masculinity in Popular Film,
David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill
4. Transamerica (2005): The Road to the Multiplex after New Queer Cinema,
Gary Needham
II. New Feminine Subjects: A Space for Women?
5. Enchanted (2007) by Postfeminism, Yvonne Tasker
6. Neoliberal Femininity in Miss Congeniality (2000), Yael D Sherman
7. Girls' Sexualities in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Universe:
Feminist Challenges and Missed Opportunities, Sarah Projansky
8. Michael Clayton (2007): Women Lawyers Betrayed - Again, Taunya Lovell
Banks
9. Crossing Race, Crossing Sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham
(2002): Managing Anxiety in Multicultural Britain, Mridula Nath Chakraborty
10. Speaking the Name of the Father in the Neo-Romantic Comedy: 13 Going On
30 (2004), Hilary Radner
III. Consuming Culture(s)
11. No Country for Old Women: Gendering Cinema in Conglomerate Hollywood,
Rob Schaap
12. Music and the Woman's Film: Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), Peter
Stapleton
13. Independence at What Cost? Economics and Female Desire in Nicole
Holofcener's Friends With Money (2006), Michele Schreiber
14. The Feminist Poetics of Sophia Coppola: Spectacle and
Self-Consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006), Christina Lane and Nicole
Richter
IV. Relationships, Identity and Family
15. "Eggs in Many Baskets": Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008) and the New
Intimacies of Reproduction, Jane Maree Maher
16. Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): Negotiating (and Negating)
Lesbian Sexuality in Popular Film, Kelly Kessler
17. "Die, Bridezilla, Die!": Bride Wars (2009), Wedding Envy and Chick
Flicks, Heather Brook
18. Extreme Parenting: Recuperating Fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of
the Worlds (2005), Hannah Hamad
V. Gender and Violence
19. Kinship and Racist Violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Secret Life
of Bees (2008), Ewa Ziarek
20. From Victim to Vigilante: Gender, Violence and Revenge in The Brave One
(2007) and Hard Candy (2005), Rebecca Stringer
21. "When the Woman Looks": High Tension (2003) and the Horrors of
Heteronormativity, Barry Keith Grant