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.

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Hlavní autor: Pisters, Patricia (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd [2020]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv177thfv
Obsah:
  • 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.