Killing women [[electronic resource] ] : the visual culture of gender and violence / / Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451896803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-50149-6; 9786612501494; 0-88920-530-2; 1-4294-2930-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Collana: Cultural studies series
• Altri autori (Persone): LordSusan <1959->; BurfootAnnette <1958->
• Disciplina: 305.4/896949
• Soggetti: Violence in women; Women - Violence against; Women murderers in motion pictures; Women - Crimes against - Social aspects; Motion pictures - Social aspects; Mass media - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday / Sylvie Frigon -- Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre / Sharon Rosenberg -- Missing: on the politics of re/presentation / Zoey Élouard Michele -- Killing the killers: women on death row in the United States / Kathleen O'Shea -- "Dealing with the devil": Karla Homolka and the absence of feminist criticism / Belinda Morrissey. Techniques and technologies of representing violence. Pearls and gore: the spectacle of woman in life and death / Annette Burfoot -- "I am awake in the place where women die": violent death in the art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer / Lisa ; Coulthard -- Women and murder in the televirtuality film / Jack Boozer -- "I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture" / Margot Leigh Butler -- Killing time: the violent imaginary of feminist media / Susan Lord. National trouble: gendered violence. Dario Argento's The bird with the crystal plumage: caging women's rage / Frank Burke -- How positively levitating! Chinese heroines of Kung fu and Wuxia pian / Suzie S.F. Young -- The madwomen in our movies: female psycho-killers in American horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider -- Reverence, rape--and then revenge: popular Hindi cinema's "women's film" / Jyotika Virdi -- In the name of the nation: images of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters / Dorit Naaman.
• Sommario/riassunto: The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book's extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and