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Killing women the visual culture of gender and violence

Title
Killing women [electronic resource] : the visual culture of gender and violence / Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors.
Publication
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Lord, Susan, 1959-
  • Burfoot, Annette.
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 328 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Cultural studies series
Uniform Title
  • Killing women (Online)
  • Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
Subject
  • Women murderers
  • Violence in women
  • Women > Violence against
  • Women murderers in motion pictures
  • Violence in motion pictures
  • Women in mass media
  • Violence in mass media
  • Motion pictures > Social aspects
  • Mass media > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
History, 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 Élouard 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.
LCCN
2007367707
OCLC
ssj0000187448
Title
Killing women [electronic resource] : the visual culture of gender and violence / Annette Burfoot and Susan Lord, editors.
Imprint
Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2006.
Series
Cultural studies series
Cultural studies series (Waterloo, Ont.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Lord, Susan, 1959-
Burfoot, Annette.
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