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From the Margins to the Mainstream

Women in Film and Television

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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This book explores the various issues raised by women’s fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series.Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in films such as Jackie Brown (1997), Marie Antoinette (2006), It’s a Free World… (2007) and Wonder Woman (2017). They particularly look into the overlooked gendered aspects of voice-overs and the adverse tropes used to represent maternity in television series as well as the complex motif of the vagina dentata in contemporary film and television.The chapters analyze independent, art-house, Hollywood and TV productions often in transnational contexts, shedding light on how definitions of femininity are culturally specific yet cross national, class and racial lines. The contributors include renowned scholars such as Yvonne Tasker, Celestino Deleyto, David Roche and Nicole Cloarec, as well as emerging yet well-published film scholars.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-22
Mått136 x 214 x 20 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Gender and Popular Culture
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350331655

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Film inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Television inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Marianne Kac-Vergne is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Her research interests are masculinity, femininity, Hollywood genres and science fiction. She is author of Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future (I. B. Tauris, 2017).Julie Assouly is Associate Professor of American Studies at Université d’Artois, France. Her research themes are pictorial intertextuality, intermediality and cultural transfers in American cinema, specifically the films of the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson. She is the author of L’Amérique des frères Coen (2015).

List of illustrations AcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ ForewordIntroductionPart I: Women speaking from the marginsInterview with Vivienne Dick1. Lizzie Borden and Vivienne Dick: Fighting for Female Filmmaking - Céline Murillo2. Daughters behind the camera - Nicole Cloarec3. Molly Haskell’s take on feminist film theory: the place of feminist film criticism outside academia -Anne Hurault-PaupePart II: Women in semi-independent cinema4. Racial bodies in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995) - Hélène Charlery5. ‘She’s a Whole Lotta Woman’: Pam Grier’s Star Image in Jackie Brown (1997) - David Roche 6. Women on the Border: A Cosmopolitan Approach to the Representation of Contemporary Femininity in It’s a Free World… (2007) - Celestino Deleyto7. Marie Antoinette (2006), Fashion Queens and Hollywood Stars - Sara PescePart III: Women protagonists in mainstream television and blockbusters8. Voice-overs: renewing gender representations in American TV series - Anaïs Le Fèvre-Berthelot9. Moving into the Mainstream: Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Female TV Action Heroes - Anne Sweet 10. In the Mouth of Fearfulness: Women, Power and the Vagina Dentata in Contemporary American Cinema - Charles-Antoine Courcoux 11. Can Women be Superheroes? Reflections on American Cinema and Beyond - Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK)List of ReferencesIndex