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Heightened genre and women's filmmaking in Hollywood : the rise of the cine-fille / Mary Harrod.

9783030709945 (electronic bk.)
3030709949 (electronic bk.)
9783030709938 (hardcover)
3030709930 (hardcover)

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

1 online resource (314 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-70994-5 doi

PN1998.2 .H37 2021

791.43023309252

Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address intellectual cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims womens mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.

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