Women Who Kill Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era

You must be logged in to access this title.

Sign up now

Already a member? Log in

Synopsis

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism.The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010­); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina(2015) among others.

Book details

Series:
Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Author:
David Roche, Cristelle Maury
ISBN:
9781350115613
Related ISBNs:
9781350115590
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-02-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
Cristelle Maury, David Roche 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology