Push comes to shove : new images of aggressive women / / Maud Lavin

• Autore: Lavin Maud
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 704.9/4240973
• Soggetto topico: Women in art; Women in popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Women in popular culture - United States - History - 21st century; Aggressiveness in art; Aggressiveness in popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Aggressiveness in popular culture - United States - History - 21st century; Arts, American - 20th century; Arts, American - 21st century; Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Popular culture - United States - History - 21st century
• Soggetto non controllato: ARTS/General
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sibling play : women, sports, and movies -- Aging and aggression -- Violence : Kill Bill and Murder girls -- Unbuttoning sexuality : Zane and Kara Walker -- More siblings : aggression within art and activist groups.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the past, more often than not, aggressive women have been rebuked, told to keep a lid on, turn the other cheek, get over it. Repression more than aggression was seen as woman's domain. But recently there's been a noticeable cultural shift. With growing frequency, women's aggression is now celebrated in contemporary culture--in movies and TV, online ventures, and art. In Push Comes to Shove, Maud Lavin examines these new images of aggressive women and how they affect women's lives. Aggression, says Lavin, need not entail causing harm to another; we can think of it as the use of force to create change--fruitful, destructive, or both. And over the past twenty years, contemporary culture has shown women seizing this power. Lavin chooses provocative examples to explore the complexity of aggression, including the surfer girls in Blue Crush, Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect, the homicidal women in Kill Bill, and artist Marlene McCarty's mural-sized Murder Girls. Women need aggression and need to use it consciously, Lavin writes. With Push Comes to Shove, she explores the questions of how to manifest aggression, how to represent it, and how to keep open a cultural space for it. --From publisher's description.
• Titolo autorizzato: Push comes to shove
• ISBN: 0-262-29151-7; 1-282-89924-4; 9786612899249; 0-262-28955-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791683903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II