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Author:   Marianne Kac-Vergne (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France) ,  Julie Assouly (Université d’Artois, France)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9781788312677

ISBN 10:   1788312678
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   11 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Foreword Introduction Part I: Women speaking from the margins Interview with Vivienne Dick 1. Lizzie Borden and Vivienne Dick: Fighting for Female Filmmaking - Céline Murillo 2. Daughters behind the camera - Nicole Cloarec 3. Molly Haskell’s take on feminist film theory: the place of feminist film criticism outside academia -Anne Hurault-Paupe Part II: Women in semi-independent cinema 4. Racial bodies in Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995) - Hélène Charlery 5. ‘She’s a Whole Lotta Woman’: Pam Grier’s Star Image in Jackie Brown (1997) - David Roche 6. Women on the Border: A Cosmopolitan Approach to the Representation of Contemporary Femininity in It’s a Free World… (2007) - Celestino Deleyto 7. Marie Antoinette (2006), Fashion Queens and Hollywood Stars - Sara Pesce Part III: Women protagonists in mainstream television and blockbusters 8. Voice-overs: renewing gender representations in American TV series - Anaïs Le Fèvre-Berthelot 9. Moving into the Mainstream: Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Female TV Action Heroes - Anne Sweet 10. In the Mouth of Fearfulness: Women, Power and the Vagina Dentata in Contemporary American Cinema - Charles-Antoine Courcoux 11. Can Women be Superheroes? Reflections on American Cinema and Beyond - Yvonne Tasker (University of Leeds, UK) List of References Index

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Address[es] enthralling issues, such as the relationship between the male gaze and spectator identification; beauty, desirability and the white and black female body ... and the gendered hierarchy in American TV series’ voice-overs, to name but a few. ... The message of this essay collection is loud and clear * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *

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Marianne Kac-Vergne is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Her research interests are masculinity, femininity, Hollywood genres and science fiction. She is author of Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future (I. B. Tauris, 2017). Julie Assouly is Associate Professor of American Studies at Université d’Artois, France. Her research themes are pictorial intertextuality, intermediality and cultural transfers in American cinema, specifically the films of the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson. She is the author of L’Amérique des frères Coen (2015).

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