Women who kill gender and sexuality in film and series of the post-feminist

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"Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creat...

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Other Authors: Maury, Cristelle (Editor), Roche, David (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Series:Library of gender and popular culture.
Subjects:
Women murderers in motion pictures.
Murder in motion pictures.
Gender and Film.
Sexuality and Gender (Politics).
Art & Visual Culture.
Film & Media.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Full text (Emerson users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Series Editor's Introduction, Angela Smith and Claire Nally Introduction, Cristelle Maury and David Roche
  • Part I Neo-Femmes Fatales
  • Chapter 1 The Femme Fatale of the 1990s Erotic Thriller: A Post-feminist Killer?, Delphine Letort
  • Chapter 2 The African Femme Fatale: Re-Appropriation of a Mythical Figure in White Men Are Cracking Up (Ngozi Onwurah, 1994), Emilie Herbert
  • Chapter 3 Transwoman Who Kills: Hit & Miss (Sky Atlantic, 2012), Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot
  • Chapter 4 Genre and Gender in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2014), Christophe Gelly
  • Chapter 5 Textbook Femme Fatale, De-eroticised Neo-noir Heroine or Post-Feminist Woman Who Kills? Genre Trouble in Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014), Cristelle Maury
  • Part II Action Babes
  • Chapter 6 From Sarah Connor 2.0 to Sarah Connor 3.0: Women Who Kill in the Terminator Franchise, Marianne Kac-Vergne
  • Chapter 7 Girls against Women: Contrasting Female Violence in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias, Adrienne Boutang
  • Chapter 8 Motherhood, Domesticity and Nurturing in the Post-Apocalyptic World: Negotiating Femininity in The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010-), Marta Suarez Chapter 9 An Audience Studies Approach to Tarantino's Violent Heroines in Kill Bill (2003-2004) and Death Proof (2007), Connor Winterton Chapter 10 Licensed to Kill? Arming and Disarming Female Killers in Action Film and Parody in Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) and Spy (Paul Feig, 2015), Elizabeth Mullen
  • Part III Monstrous Women Chapter
  • 11 The Women Who Killed Too Many: Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) and Female Virality , Julia Echeverria
  • Chapter 12 Black Female Empowerment, Intersectionality and the Ganja character in Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee, 2014), Hľn̈e Charlery
  • Chapter 13 Monstrous Feminists? Witches, Murder, and Avatars of (Post-)feminism in American Horror Story: Coven (FX, 2013-2014), Mikal︠ Toulza
  • Chapter 14 Furies and Female Empowerment: The Sword and the Pen in Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2012) and Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015), Carolina Abello Onofre and Christophe Chambost
  • Chapter 15 Masculine Cultures of Technology and the Robotic Female Avenger in Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) , Samantha Lindop
  • Chapter 16 'You're a Dangerous Girl': Beauty and Violence in The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016), Janice Loreck.
  • Coda Evidence of Cruel Optimism: Nick Broomfield's Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003), Rosemary White
  • Afterword Women Who Kill after #MeToo, David Roche and Cristelle Maury
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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