New blood in contemporary cinema : women directors and the poetics of horror /

The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.

Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Pisters, Patricia (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd [2020]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv177thfv
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: Virginia's Unruly Daughters and Carrie's Crimson Sisters
  • 1 Violence and Female Agency: Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind
  • 2 Growing Pains: Breasts, Blood and Fangs
  • 3 Longing and Lust, 'Red Light' on a 'Dark Continent'
  • 4 Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Offspring
  • 5 Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice
  • Conclusion Bloody Red: Poetics, Patterns, Politics.