LEADER 04676nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910451896803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-50149-6 010 $a9786612501494 010 $a0-88920-530-2 010 $a1-4294-2930-5 024 3 $z9780889204973 035 $a(CKB)1000000000466397 035 $a(EBL)685539 035 $a(OCoLC)753479471 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000187448 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11156797 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187448 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157654 035 $a(PQKB)10004182 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685539 035 $a(CaPaEBR)407009 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00201268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3246986 035 $a(OCoLC)227201968 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14689 035 $a(PPN)238409279 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL685539 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10155161 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250149 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000466397 100 $a20060802d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aKilling women$b[electronic resource] $ethe visual culture of gender and violence /$fAnnette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors 210 $aWaterloo, Ont. $cWilfred Laurier University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 225 1 $aCultural studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-88920-526-4 311 $a0-88920-497-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index. 327 $aHistory, 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 E?louard 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. 330 $a The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book's extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and practices of identity politics and debates about the ethics and politics of representation itself. Does representation produce or reproduce the conditions of violence? Is representation itself a form of violence? This book adds significant new dimensions to the characterization of gender and 410 0$aCultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.) 606 $aViolence in women 606 $aWomen$xViolence against 606 $aWomen murderers in motion pictures 606 $aWomen$xCrimes against$xSocial aspects 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects 606 $aMass media$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aViolence in women. 615 0$aWomen$xViolence against. 615 0$aWomen murderers in motion pictures. 615 0$aWomen$xCrimes against$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aMass media$xSocial aspects. 676 $a305.4/896949 701 $aLord$b Susan$f1959-$0942921 701 $aBurfoot$b Annette$f1958-$0942922 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451896803321 996 $aKilling women$92127824 997 $aUNINA