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.

מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Pisters, Patricia (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd [2020]
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv177thfv
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.