Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781474425292
• ISBN-10: 1474425291
• Artikelnr.: 56755771

Autorenporträt

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz lectures in the Department of Modern Languages and English Studies at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on film genres and women's cinema in the USA and Spain. She has published book chapters and journal articles on Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers, Icíar Bollaín and Isabel Coixet. Most recently she has co-edited with Mary Harrod the forthcoming Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Impossible Liaisons? Genre and Feminist Film Criticism
1: Subversive Auteur, Subversive Genre
2: Repeat in order to Remake. Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama's Jennifer's Body
3: Hollywood Transvestite. Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker
4: Genre in the Margins. Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff
5: Genre on the Surface. Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette
6: What a Woman Wants? Nancy Meyers's The Intern
Afterword: Desperately Seeking Wonder Women
Bibliography
Index