Pisters, Patricia, <br/><br/>
New blood in contemporary cinema :  women directors and the poetics of horror / 
Patricia Pisters. 
 - Edinburgh :  Edinburgh University Press Ltd,  (c)2020. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781474466974 9781474466981 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women motion picture producers and directors.<br/>Horror films.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995  / .N493 2020