Representations of murderous women in literature, theatre, film, and television
Subtitle: examining the patriarchal presuppositions behind the treatment of murderesses in fiction and reality
By: edited by Juli L. Parker ; oreword by Paula Ruth Gilbert
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press; Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780773414587
Subjects: Murder in literature; Murder in motion pictures; Women murderers in literature; Women murderers in motion pictures; Women murderers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On the page. A "horrible lust for living blood" : supernatural female murderers in nineteenth-century literature; title: A comparative reading of Mona Caird's The wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1892); title: She hid it well : female serial killers in American hard-boiled detective fiction; title: Speculative biographies : representing the lives of historical murdering women; title: The murdering woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese  cultural context; title: The bodies of Lizzie Borden; title: On the screen. Increasingly monstrous representation of real  female killers in American cinema : I want to  live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003); title: "Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma" : maternal virtue and  Mrs. Voorhees; title: Women on death row : documentary film and  the cultural politics of identity; title: Lethal ladies : the stars of John Waters' Female  trouble and Serial mom; title: The birth of the female youth rampage shooter; title: Women who kill : Law & order, Dexter  & The wire; title: On the stage. Killing a husband : Alice Arden and her  accomplices on the early modern stage; title: "There's so much I want to tell her" : Sophie  Treadwell's Machinal and the transference of femininity; title: Sheila's deposition, 1997; title: Another day in court : women playwrights; title: The murdering mother in Marina Carr's plays.