Representations of femininity in American genre cinema [electronic resource] : the woman's film, film noir, and modern horror / David Greven.
Greven, David.
2011
PN1995.9.W6 G745 2011eb
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Title Representations of femininity in American genre cinema [electronic resource] : the woman's film, film noir, and modern horror / David Greven.
Author Greven, David.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780230118836 (electronic bk.)
9780230112513
Imprint New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (214 p.)
Call Number PN1995.9.W6 G745 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/6522
Summary A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the slasher horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation. The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : femininity and film genres
Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother
Transformations of the woman's film : or, feminine myths
Modern horror. Modern horror as the concealed woman's film
Medusa in the mirror : Brian de Palma's Carrie
Demeter and Persephone in space : transformation, femininity, and myth in the alien films
The finalizing woman : horror, femininity, and queer monsters
Coda : the brave one.

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