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New blood in contemporary cinema : women directors and the poetics of horror / Patricia Pisters.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474466974
  • 9781474466981
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .N493 2020
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Contents:
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Virginia's Unruly Daughters and Carrie's Crimson Sisters -- 1 Violence and Female Agency: Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind -- 2 Growing Pains: Breasts, Blood and Fangs -- 3 Longing and Lust, 'Red Light' on a 'Dark Continent' -- 4 Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Offspring -- 5 Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice -- Conclusion Bloody Red: Poetics, Patterns, Politics -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Subject: The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- New Blood in Contemporary Cinema -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Virginia's Unruly Daughters and Carrie's Crimson Sisters -- 1 Violence and Female Agency: Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind -- 2 Growing Pains: Breasts, Blood and Fangs -- 3 Longing and Lust, 'Red Light' on a 'Dark Continent' -- 4 Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Offspring -- 5 Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice -- Conclusion Bloody Red: Poetics, Patterns, Politics -- Notes -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.

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