Patricia Pisters

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474466981
• Artikelnr.: 72430381

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