ISBN:
0889204977
,
9780889204973
Language:
English
Pages:
XXII, 328 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Cultural studies series 6
Series Statement:
Cultural studies series
DDC:
305.4/896949
Keywords:
Women murderers
;
Violence in women
;
Women Violence against
;
Women murderers in motion pictures
;
Violence in motion pictures
;
Women in mass media
;
Violence in mass media
;
Motion pictures Social aspects
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Filmografie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Filmografie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Mörderin
;
Massenmedien
;
Mörderin
;
Massenmedien
;
Film
;
Frau
;
Gewalt
Abstract:
History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday / Sylvie Frigon -- Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre / Sharon Rosenberg -- Missing: on the politics of re/presentation / Zoey (c)louard Michele -- Killing the killers: women on death row in the United States / Kathleen O'Shea -- "Dealing with the devil": Karla Homolka and the absence of feminist criticism / Belinda Morrissey. Techniques and technologies of representing violence. Pearls and gore: the spectacle of woman in life and death / Annette Burfoot -- "I am awake in the place where women die": violent death in the art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer / Lisa Coulthard -- Women and murder in the televirtuality film / Jack Boozer -- "I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture" / Margot Leigh Butler -- Killing time: the violent imaginary of feminist media / Susan Lord. National trouble: gendered violence. Dario Argento's The bird with the crystal plumage: caging women's rage / Frank Burke -- How positively levitating! Chinese heroines of Kung fu and Wuxia pian / Suzie S.F. Young -- The madwomen in our movies: female psycho-killers in American horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider -- Reverence, rape--and then revenge: popular Hindi cinema's "women's film" / Jyotika Virdi -- In the name of the nation: images of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters / Dorit Naaman
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index
,
History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday
,
Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
,
Missing: on the politics of re/presentation
,
Killing the killers: women on death row in the United States
,
"Dealing with the devil": Karla Homolka and the absence of feminist criticism
,
"I am awake in the place where women die": violent death in the art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer
,
Women and murder in the televirtuality film
,
"I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture"
,
Killing time: the violent imaginary of feminist media
,
How positively levitating! Chinese heroines of Kung fu and Wuxia pian
,
The madwomen in our movies: female psycho-killers in American horror cinema
,
Reverence, rape--and then revenge: popular Hindi cinema's "women's film"
,
In the name of the nation: images of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters
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