Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema

The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
2011
ISBN: 978-1-137-35499-0
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress , and Flamingo Road to Carrie , the Alien films, The Brave One , and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greven, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Femininity and Film Genres Freud and the Death-Mother Transformations of the Woman's Film Modern Horror as the Concealed Woman's Film Medusa in the Mirror: Brian De Palma's Carrie Demeter and Persephone in Space: Transformation, Femininity, and Myth in the Alien Films The Finalizing Woman: Horror, Femininity, and Queer Monsters The Brave One

Über Autor(innen)

David Greven is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, USA. His books include Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese and Friedkin; The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender; and Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature. Greven's essays on film have been published in journals such as the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Cinema Journal, Genders, Jump Cut, CineAction, and Cineaste and he is on the editorial boards of Cinema Journal, Genders, and Poe Studies.