TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-70994-5
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Heightened genre and women's filmmaking in Hollywood :the rise of the cine-fille /
AU  - Harrod, Mary,
CN  - PN1998.2
ID  - 1437177
KW  - Women motion picture producers and directors
KW  - Women in the motion picture industry
KW  - Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma
KW  - Femmes dans l'industrie cinématographique
SN  - 9783030709945
SN  - 3030709949
TI  - Heightened genre and women's filmmaking in Hollywood :the rise of the cine-fille /
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