New blood in contemporary cinema : women directors and the poetics of horror / Patricia Pisters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pisters, Patricia, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Feminist film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 244 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadz̈ihalilović and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics, 'New Blood in Contemporary Cinema' takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-9531-1

1-4744-6697-4

OCLC:

1312726478