Patricia Pisters

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

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Produktbeschreibung

Ther 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 240mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781474466950
• ISBN-10: 1474466958
• Artikelnr.: 59511234

Autorenporträt

Professor Patricia Pisters is Professor of Film Studies and Media Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Virginia's Unruly Daughters and Carrie's Crimson Sisters
Chapter One: Violence and Female Agency - Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind:Chapter Two: Growing Pains - Breasts, Blood and Fangs
Chapter Three: Longing and Lust, 'Red Light' on a 'Dark Continent'
Chapter Four: Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Off-spring
Chapter Five: Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice
Conclusion: Bloody Red - Poetics, Patterns, Politics
Notes
Illustrations
Filmography of Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
Bibliography
Index