Overview

Mary Harron's diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first book to examine an overlooked filmmaker in relation to feminist cinema. It discusses the dialectical dynamics within her wide-ranging body of work, and it argues that Harron's work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitations. Each chapter provides an in-depth study on Harron's creative approaches to film and television production, with chapters offering close readings of each of her 5 narrative features, and her work in television and promotional film. With scholarly approaches from the fields of cinema, television, gender, fashion, death and celebrity studies, this is a long-awaited introduction to a groundbreaking figure in contemporary cinema.

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Author:   Kyle Barrett (Lecturer, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.449kg
ISBN:  

9781474494410

ISBN 10:   1474494412
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction - Kyle Barrett PART ONE: BIOPICS 1. I Shot Andy Warhol: Fame, Notoriety and Mary Harron’s Anti-biopics - Janice Loreck 2. On the Other Side of the Icon: Making Images and Restaging Celebrity Spectacle in Anna Nicole - Kimberley Lamm PART TWO: FEATURE FILMS AND PRODUCTION CONTEXTS 3. Dream of the ‘90s: Mary Harron in Indiewood - Kyle Barrett 4. ""I Like to Dissect Girls"": Mary Harron’s American Psycho as Gendered Metafiction - Coco d’Hont 5. ""And then I met Lucy"": Perfection, Same-Sex Desire, and Social Control in Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries - Caroline Speller 6. Charismatic Breadwinner Killer: Gender Power Relations in Charlie Says (2018) - Gemma Piercy-Cameron PART THREE: TELEVISION AND SHORT FILM PRODUCTION 7. Death to Disposal: Echoes of American Psycho in The Rainbow of Her Reasons (Six Feet Under) - Gareth Schott 8. Sartorial Interventions: When Fashion and Film Collide in Armani (Mary Harron, 2012) - Elena Caoduro Index

Reviews

This is a welcome addition to the growing body of work on women working within mainstream and/or indie film and television production, an area of creative practice too often overlooked. The editor has done well to source a range of cogent contributions providing good coverage of Mary Harron's oeuvre, including in television.--Mary Harrod, University of Warwick

This is a welcome addition to the growing body of work on women working within mainstream and/or indie film and television production, an area of creative practice too often overlooked. The editor has done well to source a range of cogent contributions providing good coverage of Mary Harron’s oeuvre, including in television. -- Mary Harrod, University of Warwick

Author Information

Kyle Barrett is a Lecturer and filmmaker in Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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