TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greven,David
TI  - Representations of femininity in American genre cinema: the woman's film, film noir, and modern horror 
SN  - 9780230118836 (ebook)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Femininity in motion pictures
KW  - Women in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Films, cinema
KW  - thema
KW  - Film: styles & genres
KW  - Feminism & feminist theory
KW  - The arts: general issues
KW  - Media studies
KW  - Gender studies, gender groups
KW  - United States of America, USA
KW  - Gender studies: women & girls
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Film history, theory & criticism
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9780230112513; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - 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. 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
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