Representations of femininity in American genre cinema
Subtitle: the woman's film, film noir, and modern horror
By: David Greven
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; Femininity in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index..
Table of contents: title: Introduction : femininity and film genres; title: Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother; title: Transformations of the woman's film : or, feminine myths; title: Modern horror. Modern horror as the concealed woman's film; title: Medusa in the mirror : Brian de Palma's Carrie; title: Demeter and Persephone in space : transformation, femininity, and myth in the alien films; title: The finalizing woman : horror, femininity, and queer monsters; title: Coda : the brave one.