Feminism at the movies
Subtitle: understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema
By: edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780415895873; 9780415895880
Subjects: Sex role in motion pictures; Masculinity in motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; History and criticism; Feminist films; Motion pictures for women; Feminism and motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "Re-vision"?: feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer; title: Masculinity in question. "The first bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Janet Staiger; title: Queer memories and universal emotions: A single man (2009) / Michael DeAngelis; title: "Lad flicks": discursive reconstructions of masculinity in popular film / David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill; title: Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after new queer cinema / Gary Needham; title: New feminine subjects: a space for women? Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism / Yvonne Tasker; title: Neoliberal femininity in Miss congeniality (2000) / Yael D. Sherman; title: Girls' sexualities in The sisterhood of the traveling pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Sarah Projansky; title: Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed; title: again / Taunya Lovell Banks; title: Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Mridula Nath Chakraborty; title: Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 going on 30 (2004) / Hilary Radner; title: Consuming culture(s).; title: No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Rob Schaap; title: Music and the woman's film: Sex and the city: the movie (2008) / Peter Stapleton; title: Independence at what cost? Economics and female desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends with money (2006) / Michele Schreiber; title: The feminist poetics of Sophia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christina Lane and Nicole Richter; title: Relationships, identity and family. "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby mama (2008) and the new intimacies of reproduction / Jane Maree Maher; title: Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / Kelly Kessler; title: "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride wars (2009), wedding envy and chick flicks / Heather Brook; title: Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the worlds (2005) / Hannah Hamad; title: Gender and violence. Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The secret life of bees (2008) / Ewa Ziarek; title: From victim to vigilante: gender, violence and revenge in The brave one (2007) and Hard candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer; title: "When the woman looks": High tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant.