Gender meets genre in postwar cinemasedited by Christine Gledhill.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Refiguring genre and gender. The genius of genre and ingenuity of women / No fixed address: the women's picture from outrage to blue steel / Circulating emotion: race, gender, and genre in Crash / 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. It's a Mann's world? / Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Genre and gender transnational. Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Christine Gledhill -- Jane Gaines -- Pam Cook -- E. Deidre Pribram -- Luke Collins -- E. Ann Kaplan -- Yvonne Tasker -- Samiha Matin -- Lucy Fischer -- Adam Segal -- Deborah Thomas -- Katie Model -- Ira Bhaskar -- Xiangyang Chen -- Vicente Rodriguez Ortega -- Derek Kane-Meddock -- Chris Straayer -- Steven Cohan.
This remarkable collection challenges traditional ways of thinking about the relationship between gender and genre, understanding their meeting as a mutually transformative encounter. Responding to postmodernist conceptions of genre and postfeminist theories of gender and sexuality, these essays move beyond the limits of representation. Testing new thinking about genre, gender, and sexuality against closely analyzed films, they explore generic convention as putting into play what our culture makes of us, while finding in genre's repetitions infinite possibilities of cross-generic, cross-gender, cross-sex permutation. At the same time the aesthetic and emotional dimensions of gender and sexuality emerge as elements fueling the dramatic worlds of film genres, producing in the encounter new gendered perceptions, affects, and effects. _x000B__x000B_Recognizing the intensifying transnational context of film production and responding to postcolonial perspectives, this volume includes essays that explore the transformational transactions between gender and genre in the meeting between world-circulating Hollywood generic practices and American independent, European, Indian, and Hong Kong cinemas. Such revised concepts of genre and gender question taken-for-granted relationships between authorship and genre, between center and periphery, and between feminism and generic filmmaking. They consequently rethink the gendering of genres, filmmakers, and their audiences. _x000B__x000B_Contributors are Ira Bhaskar, Steven Cohan, Luke Collins, Pam Cook, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Derek Kane-Meddock, E. Ann Kaplan, Samiha Matin, Katie Model, E. Deidre Pribram, Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, Adam Segal, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Deborah Thomas, and Xiangyang Chen.
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