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Representations of femininity in American genre cinema : the woman's film, film noir, and modern horror / David Greven.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.W6 G745 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greven, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Femininity in motion pictures.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction : femininity and film genres
- Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother
- Transformations of the woman's film : or, feminine myths
- Modern horror. 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
- Coda : the brave one.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230112513
- 023011251X
- OCLC:
- 664839199
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