ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron
Mary Harron’s diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first book to examine an overlooked filmmaker in relation to feminist cinema. It discusses the dialectical dynamics within her wide-ranging body of work, and it argues that Harron’s work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitations.
Each chapter provides an in-depth study on Harron’s creative approaches to film and television production, with chapters offering close readings of each of her 5 narrative features, and her work in television and promotional film. With scholarly approaches from the fields of cinema, television, gender, fashion, death and celebrity studies, this is a long-awaited introduction to a groundbreaking figure in contemporary cinema.

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ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron
Mary Harron’s diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first book to examine an overlooked filmmaker in relation to feminist cinema. It discusses the dialectical dynamics within her wide-ranging body of work, and it argues that Harron’s work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitations.
Each chapter provides an in-depth study on Harron’s creative approaches to film and television production, with chapters offering close readings of each of her 5 narrative features, and her work in television and promotional film. With scholarly approaches from the fields of cinema, television, gender, fashion, death and celebrity studies, this is a long-awaited introduction to a groundbreaking figure in contemporary cinema.

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ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron

ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron

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Mary Harron’s diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first book to examine an overlooked filmmaker in relation to feminist cinema. It discusses the dialectical dynamics within her wide-ranging body of work, and it argues that Harron’s work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitations.
Each chapter provides an in-depth study on Harron’s creative approaches to film and television production, with chapters offering close readings of each of her 5 narrative features, and her work in television and promotional film. With scholarly approaches from the fields of cinema, television, gender, fashion, death and celebrity studies, this is a long-awaited introduction to a groundbreaking figure in contemporary cinema.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474494427
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 07/17/2023
Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Kyle Barrett is a Lecturer and filmmaker in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Kyle Barrett

PART ONE: BIOPICS

1. I Shot Andy Warhol: Fame, Notoriety and Mary Harron’s Anti-biopics - Janice Loreck

2. On the Other Side of the Icon: Making Images and Restaging Celebrity Spectacle in Anna Nicole - Kimberley Lamm

PART TWO: FEATURE FILMS AND PRODUCTION CONTEXTS

3. Dream of the ‘90s: Mary Harron in Indiewood - Kyle Barrett

4. "I Like to Dissect Girls": Mary Harron’s American Psycho as Gendered Metafiction - Coco d’Hont

5. "And then I met Lucy": Perfection, Same-Sex Desire, and Social Control in Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries - Caroline Speller

6. Charismatic Breadwinner Killer: Gender Power Relations in Charlie Says (2018) - Gemma Piercy-Cameron

PART THREE: TELEVISION AND SHORT FILM PRODUCTION

7. Death to Disposal: Echoes of American Psycho in The Rainbow of Her Reasons (Six Feet Under) - Gareth Schott

8. Sartorial Interventions: When Fashion and Film Collide in Armani (Mary Harron, 2012) - Elena Caoduro

Index

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