Karen Redrobe

Vanishing Women

Magic, Film, and Feminism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Karen Beckman has written an eye-opening book, one that travels across a richly diverse group of texts in order to reveal the vanishing woman's historical underpinnings and cultural work."--Sabrina Barton

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331254
• ISBN-10: 082233125X
• Artikelnr.: 21613924

Autorenporträt

Karen Beckman

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
1. Surplus Bodies, Vanishing Women: Conjuring, Imperialism, and the
Rhetoric of Disappearance, 1851–1901 17
2. Insubstantial Media: Ectoplasm, Exposure, and the Stillbirth of Film 61
3. Mother Knows Best: Magic and Matricide 93
4. Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Politics of
Prestidigitation 129
5. Shooting Stars, Vanishing Comets: Bette Davis and Cinematic Fading 153
Afterword 189
Notes 195
Works Cited 219
Filmography 233
Index 235