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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Katarzyna PaszkiewiczPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781474425261ISBN 10: 1474425267 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 June 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"'Interested in the relationship been genre and gender, Paszkiewicz proposes that genre is both constricting and liberating for female filmmakers. She examines recent films directed by female auteurs in genres considered ""male"": Jennifer's Body (2009), a horror film directed by Karyn Kusama; The Hurt Locker (2008), a war film by Kathryn Bigelow; Meek's Cutoff (2010), a western by Kelly Reichardt; Marie Antoinette (2006), a costume drama by Sofia Coppola; and The Intern (2015), a romantic comedy by Nancy Meyers. Each of these women demonstrates not only an encyclopedic knowledge of the genre in which she is working but also a willingness to play with and on the conventions of the genre, imbuing it with a feminine perspective. Paszkiewicz's own knowledge, both of genres and of the scholarly literature on the subject, is equally encyclopedic, and one would say that she has mastered her own particular genre--the academic theoretical essay.' --W. A. Vincent, Michigan State University ""CHOICE """ Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers is a challenging, complex and critically intelligent work. It offers new perspectives on the cinema s fraught relationship with women directors and their significant contribution to popular genre cinema from the war and horror film to the western and biopic. An important addition to feminist film theory, Paszkiewicz's book is essential reading for anyone interested in the most recent debates around gender, genre and the achievement of women filmmakers. -- Professor Barbara Creed, The University of Melbourne, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Author InformationKatarzyna Paszkiewicz lectures in the English Studies Department at the University of Barcelona. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |