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Record Nr.

UNISA996472052003316

Autore

Paszkiewicz Katarzyna

Titolo

Genre, authorship and contemporary women filmmakers / / Katarzyna Paszkiewicz [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4744-4963-8

1-4744-2528-3

1-4744-2527-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

791.4302/33082

Soggetti

Women motion picture producers and directors - United States

Motion pictures - United States

Film genres

Motion picture authorship

Motion pictures - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: impossible liaisons? genre and feminist film criticism -- Subversive auteur, subversive genre -- Repeat to remake: Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama's Jennifer's Body -- Hollywood transvestite: Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker -- Genre in the margins: Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff -- Genre on the surface: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette -- What a woman wants?: Nancy Meyers's The Intern -- Afterword: desperately seeking wonder women.

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola and Kelly Reichard.