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

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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