Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas
By: edited by Christine Gledhill
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780252036613; 9780252078316
Subjects: Motion pictures and women; Women in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures; Film genres; Men in motion pictures; Feminism and motion pictures
Description: This remarkable collection challenges traditional ways of thinking about the relationship between genre and gender, understanding their meeting as a mutually transformative encounter.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Christine Gledhill; title: Refiguring genre and gender. The genius of genre and ingenuity of women / Jane Gaines; title: No fixed address: the women's picture from outrage to blue steel / Pam Cook; title: Circulating emotion: race, gender, and genre in Crash / E. Deidre Pribram; title: 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Luke Collins; title: Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / E. Ann Kaplan; title: Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Yvonne Tasker; title: Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Samiha Matin; title: Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Lucy Fischer; title: Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. It's a Mann's world? / Adam Segal; title: Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Deborah Thomas; title: Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Katie Model; title: Genre and gender transnational. Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar; title: Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen; title: Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega; title: Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Derek Kane-Meddock; title: Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer; title: "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Steven Cohan.