Janice Loreck

Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137525086
• Artikelnr.: 44919313

Autorenporträt

Janice Loreck is a Teaching Associate in the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Horror, Hysteria and Female Malaise: Antichrist
2. Science, Sensation and the Woman as Monster: Trouble Every Day
3. Sex and Self-Expression: Fatal Women in Baise-moi
4. Romance and the Lesbian Couple: Heavenly Creatures
5. Film Biography and the Female Killer: Monster
6. Evincing the Interior: Violent Femininity in The Reader
Conclusion

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Introduction
1. Horror, Hysteria and Female Malaise: Antichrist
2. Science, Sensation and the Woman as Monster: Trouble Every Day
3. Sex and Self-Expression: Fatal Women in Baise-moi
4. Romance and the Lesbian Couple: Heavenly Creatures
5. Film Biography and the Female Killer: Monster
6. Evincing the Interior: Violent Femininity in The Reader
Conclusion

Rezensionen

"Violent men in film are usually received without comment, whereas violent women are suspect and thus the victims of a double standard. ... they are some of the most important works currently being created, and they deserve a wider audience. This thoughtful, well-written book gives them the deft and detailed consideration due them. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (G. A. Foster, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)