Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema (eBook)

Janice Loreck (Autor)

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2016
179 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-52508-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema explores the representation of homicidal women in six contemporary films: Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001), Baise-moi (Coralie Thinh Thi and Virginie Despentes, 2000), Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994), Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003) and The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008). Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to viewers when women kill, they overturn cultural ideas of 'typical' feminine behaviour. Janice Loreck explores how cinema creatively depicts the violent woman in response to this challenge. Departing from earlier studies that focus on popular and exploitation cinema, the book takes a unique focus on violent women in art films and other critically-distinguished forms. It explores the appeal that the violent woman holds for spectators within this viewing context. Furthermore, the book also examines how cinema responds to the cultural construction of the violent woman as a conundrum and enigma.

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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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Introduction1. Horror, Hysteria and Female Malaise: Antichrist2. Science, Sensation and the Woman as Monster: Trouble Every Day3. Sex and Self-Expression: Fatal Women in Baise-moi4. Romance and the Lesbian Couple: Heavenly Creatures5. Film Biography and the Female Killer: Monster6. Evincing the Interior: Violent Femininity in The Reader Conclusion

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: VII, 179 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: art cinema • Cinema • Cultural Studies • exploitation cinema • Feminism • feminist theory • Film • Film Studies • Gender • homicide • Horror Cinema • Independent Cinema • Media Studies • popular cinema • Sex • Spectatorship • Subjectivity • Violence • violent women • Women
• ISBN-10: 1-137-52508-8 / 1137525088
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-52508-6 / 9781137525086