Genre, authorship and contemporary women filmmakers / / Katarzyna Paszkiewicz.

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola and Kelly Reichard.

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Superior document:Edinburgh scholarship online
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh scholarship online.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: impossible liaisons? genre and feminist film criticism
  • Subversive auteur, subversive genre
  • Repeat to remake: Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama's Jennifer's Body
  • Hollywood transvestite: Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker
  • Genre in the margins: Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff
  • Genre on the surface: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
  • What a woman wants?: Nancy Meyers's The Intern
  • Afterword: desperately seeking wonder women.