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Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema

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Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema

The Woman's Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror
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**Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION's Weekly Book List, May 20, 2011** 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.

Author Biography

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.
Release date Australia
April 5th, 2011
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
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biography
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
223
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13
9781349294459
Product ID
25413050

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