ISBN:
9781350150799
,
9781350115606
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (368 Seiten)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.4896949
Keywords:
Murder in motion pictures
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Women murderers in motion pictures
;
Media studies
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Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism. The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012) ; Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984) ; The Walking Dead (2010Ư); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ; Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina (2015) among others."--
Abstract:
Coda Evidence of Cruel Optimism: Nick Broomfield's Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003), Rosemary White -- Afterword Women Who Kill after #MeToo, David Roche and Cristelle Maury -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Series Editor's Introduction, Angela Smith and Claire Nally Introduction, Cristelle Maury and David Roche -- Part I Neo-Femmes Fatales -- Chapter 1 The Femme Fatale of the 1990s Erotic Thriller: A Post-feminist Killer?, Delphine Letort -- Chapter 2 The African Femme Fatale: Re-Appropriation of a Mythical Figure in White Men Are Cracking Up (Ngozi Onwurah, 1994), Emilie Herbert -- Chapter 3 Transwoman Who Kills: Hit & Miss (Sky Atlantic, 2012), Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot -- Chapter 4 Genre and Gender in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2014), Christophe Gelly -- Chapter 5 Textbook Femme Fatale, De-eroticised Neo-noir Heroine or Post-Feminist Woman Who Kills? Genre Trouble in Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014), Cristelle Maury -- Part II Action Babes -- Chapter 6 From Sarah Connor 2.0 to Sarah Connor 3.0: Women Who Kill in the Terminator Franchise, Marianne Kac-Vergne -- Chapter 7 Girls against Women: Contrasting Female Violence in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias, Adrienne Boutang -- Chapter 8 Motherhood, Domesticity and Nurturing in the Post-Apocalyptic World: Negotiating Femininity in The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010-), Marta Suarez Chapter 9 An Audience Studies Approach to Tarantino's Violent Heroines in Kill Bill (2003-2004) and Death Proof (2007), Connor Winterton Chapter 10 Licensed to Kill? Arming and Disarming Female Killers in Action Film and Parody in Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) and Spy (Paul Feig, 2015), Elizabeth Mullen -- Part III Monstrous Women Chapter -- 11 The Women Who Killed Too Many: Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) and Female Virality , Julia Echeverria -- Chapter 12 Black Female Empowerment, Intersectionality and the Ganja character in Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee, 2014), Hľn̈e Charlery -- Chapter 13 Monstrous Feminists? Witches, Murder, and Avatars of (Post-)feminism in American Horror Story: Coven (FX, 2013-2014), Mikal︠ Toulza -- Chapter 14 Furies and Female Empowerment: The Sword and the Pen in Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2012) and Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015), Carolina Abello Onofre and Christophe Chambost -- Chapter 15 Masculine Cultures of Technology and the Robotic Female Avenger in Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) , Samantha Lindop -- Chapter 16 'You're a Dangerous Girl': Beauty and Violence in The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016), Janice Loreck.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781350150799
URL:
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