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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas / edited by Christine Gledhill.
LIBRA PN1995.9.S47 G46 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures and women.
- Feminism and motion pictures.
- Film genres.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Men in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 274 p. ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Christine Gledhill
- Refiguring genre and gender. The genius of genre and ingenuity of women / Jane Gaines
- No fixed address: the women's picture from outrage to blue steel / Pam Cook
- Circulating emotion: race, gender, and genre in Crash / E. Deidre Pribram
- 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Luke Collins
- Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / E. Ann Kaplan
- Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Yvonne Tasker
- Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Samiha Matin
- Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Lucy Fischer
- Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. It's a Mann's world? / Adam Segal
- Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Deborah Thomas
- Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Katie Model
- Genre and gender transnational. Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar
- Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen
- Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega
- Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Derek Kane-Meddock
- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer
- "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Steven Cohan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252036613 (cloth)
- 0252036611 (cloth)
- 9780252078316 (pbk.)
- 0252078314 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 719427890
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