Format:
1 Online-Ressource (320 pages)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350120198
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9781350120181
Series Statement:
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Content:
"This work focuses on the conflicted relationship between women and film as women move from the margins to the mainstream. It examines women's involvement with the film and television industry as actresses and directors, but also as critics and spectators. Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly seek to offer new approaches to the study of gender by drawing together essays on different methodological and theoretical backgrounds like cosmopolitan theory, discourse analysis, celebrity and star studies, film history, reception studies and formalism. The chapters analyze independent, art-house, Hollywood and TV productions often in transnational contexts, shedding light on how definitions of femininity are culturally specific yet cross national, class and racial lines. The contributors include renowned scholars such as Yvonne Tasker, Celestino Deleyto, David Roche and Nicole Cloarec, as well as emerging yet well-published film scholars."--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction / Marianne Kac-Vergne (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France) & Julie Assouly (Université d'Artois, France) -- 1. Cinema and Social Structures: Female Spectatorship of Hollywood Films in North Africa and the Middle East (1910s-1950s) / Nolwenn Mingant (Université de Nantes, France) -- 2. Molly Haskell's Take on Feminist Film Theory: The Place of Feminist Film Criticism Outside Academia / Anne Hurault-Paupe (Independent scholar, France) -- 3. Lizzie Borden and Vivienne Dick: Fighting for Female Filmmaking, Céline Murillo (Université Paris XIII, France) -- 4. Daughters Behind the Camera / Nicole Cloarec (Université Rennes 2, France) -- 5. Racial Bodies in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995), Hélène Charlery (Université de Toulouse Le Mirail Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, France) 6. "She's a Whole Lotta Woman": Pam Grier's Star Image in Jackie Brown / David Roche (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier, France) -- 7. Women on the Border: A Cosmopolitan Approach to the Representation of Contemporary Femininity in It's a Free World / Celestino Deleyto (University of Zaragoza, Spain) -- 8. Marie Antoinette, Fashion Queens and Hollywood Stars / Sara Pesce (Universita di Bologna, Italy) -- 9. Voiceovers: Renewing Gender Representations in American TV series / Anaïs Le Fèvre-Berthelot (Université Rennes 2, France) 10. 'Unruly Women' and 'Monstrous Wombs': Pregnancy, Motherhood and Contemporary TV Action-Drama Heroines / Anne Sweet (L'Institut de Gestion Sociale (IGS) & L'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), France) -- 11. In the Mouth of Fearfulness: Women, Power and the Vagina Dentata in Contemporary American Cinema / Charles-Antoine Courcoux (Université de Lausanne, France) -- 12. What Happened to "Battles are Ugly Affairs"? The Representation of Fighting Girls in The Chronicles of Narnia / Chapters 1, 2 and 3, Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France) -- 13. Can Women be Superheroes? Reflections on American Cinema and Beyond / Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK) -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781788312677
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781788312677
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350120198
