Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Gledhill, Christine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2012.
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Table of 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.