New Blood in Contemporary Cinema : : Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror / / Patricia Pisters.
Discusses how contemporary women directors have appropriated horror aesthetics, enlarging its generic scope and expanding its emotional spectrumRevisits themes and concerns of the horror genre, from the perspective of women directorsIncludes case studies of important female directed films, including...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 26 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Virginia’s Unruly Daughters and Carrie’s Crimson Sisters
- 1. Violence and Female Agency: Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind
- 2. Growing Pains: Breasts, Blood and Fangs
- 3. Longing and Lust, ‘Red Light’ on a ‘Dark Continent’
- 4. Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Offspring
- 5. Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice
- Conclusion: Bloody Red: Poetics, Patterns, Politics
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index