Women who kill : gender and sexuality in film and series of the post-feminist / edited by Cristelle Maury and David Roche.

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Book
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Undetermined
Published/​Created
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 354 pages)

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Series
Library of gender and popular culture [More in this series]
Summary note
"Within the fields of film and television studies, feminist critics and scholars of the 1980s and 1990s have extensively analyzed the figures of women murderers in classical film genres like film noir and melodrama, as well as in less savoury genres like the horror films of the 1970s and 1980s. This collected volume 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. It also aims at assessing 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, but more importantly perhaps, at analyzing the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism"--Bloomsbury Collections.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 31, 2020)
Other format(s)
Also issued in print: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Digital resource published 2020.
Other title(s)
Gender and sexuality in film and series of the post-feminist
ISBN
  • 9781350115606 ((epdf))
  • 9781350115613 ((epub))
  • 9781350150799 ((online))
OCLC
1193989541
Doi
  • 10.5040/9781350150799
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