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Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

Title
Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas [electronic resource] / edited by Christine Gledhill.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]

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Additional Authors
Gledhill, Christine.
Description
1 online resource.
Uniform Title
Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas (Online)
Subject
  • Sex role in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures and women
  • Feminism and motion pictures
  • Film genres
  • Women in motion pictures
  • Men in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Introduction / Christine Gledhill -- Refiguring genre and gender. The genius of genre and ingenuity of women / Jane Gaines -- No fixed address: the women's picture from outrage to blue steel / Pam Cook -- Circulating emotion: race, gender, and genre in Crash / E. Deidre Pribram -- 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Luke Collins -- Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / E. Ann Kaplan -- Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Yvonne Tasker -- Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Samiha Matin -- Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Lucy Fischer -- Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. It's a Mann's world? / Adam Segal -- Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Deborah Thomas -- Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Katie Model -- Genre and gender transnational. Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar -- Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen -- Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega -- Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Derek Kane-Meddock -- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer -- "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Steven Cohan.
LCCN
2019716491
OCLC
ssj0000611932
Title
Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas [electronic resource] / edited by Christine Gledhill.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Gledhill, Christine.
Other Form:
Print version: Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012] 9780252036613 (cloth) (DLC) 2011046230
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