Violent women in contemporary cinema
By: Janice Loreck
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9781137525079
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures
Description: "Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of homicidal women in contemporary art and independent cinema. Examining narrative, style and spectatorship, Loreck investigates the power of art cinema to depict transgressive femininity" -- From the publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Horror, hysteria and female malaise: antichrist; title: Science, sensation and the woman as monster: trouble every day; title: Sex and self-expression: fatal womenáin baise-moi; title: Romance and the lesbian couple: heavenly creatures; title: Film biography and the female killer: monster; title: Evincing the interior: violent femininity in the reader; title: Conclusion.