Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema

by Janice Loreck

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137525079
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/29/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	179
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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)

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