Women Do Genre in Film and Television

Mary Harrod is Associate Professor in French Studies at the University of Warwick. Katarzyna Paszkiewicz is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, and member of ADHUC–Research Center for Theory, Gender and Sexuality.

"This book resoundingly answers today’s screaming need for rigorous feminist scholarship in film and television studies. The co-editors and contributors of Women Do Genre in Film and Television put forward a persuasive collective argument that gender is not merely an important element in contemporary conversations about genre, but indeed a constitutive one. The wide-ranging collection of chapters represented here, whose case studies contribute to a contemporary feminist theory of genre with global reach, ensures that this cornerstone anthology will assume a preferred place in screen studies research and pedagogy." - Julia Leyda, Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Preface (Christine Gledhill)Introduction: Women’s Authorship and Genre in Contemporary Film and Television (Mary Harrod and Katarzyna Paszkiewicz)Section 1: Women’s Authorship and Hollywood Genres1. Performance and Gender Politics in Mary Harron’s Female Celebrity Anti-Biopics (Linda Badley)2. When the Woman Directs (a Horror Film) (Katarzyna Paszkiewicz)3. The Contemptible Realm of the Romcom Queen: Nancy Meyers, Cultural Value and Romantic Comedy (Deborah Jermyn)4. Gendering the Post-9/11 Movie: Love, Loss and Regeneration in Nora Ephron’s Julie and Julia (Roberta Garrett)Section 2: Genre Outside Hollywood5. Comedy as a Feminist Strategy: Spanish Women Filmmakers Reclaim Laughter (Barbara Zecchi)6. ‘Trois Femmes Puissantes’: Playing with Gender and Genres on French TV (Brigitte Rollet)7. Breaking the Boundaries of Bollywood: Women in a ‘Man’s Industry’ (Sanghita Sen)8. Gender Politics in Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Western Meek’s Cutoff (Dawn Hall)Section 3: Beyond the Director9. 1990s Dark Comedy and the Female Screenwriter (Nicole Richter)10. Melissa McCarthy: Gender, Class and Body Politics in Contemporary US Comedy (Frances Smith)11. The Myth of Lena Dunham (Mary Harrod)12. The Feminist Game of Thrones: Outlander and Gendered Discourses of TV Genre (Jorie Lagerwey)13. A Hollywood of Our Own: Media Fandom as Female Artworld (Francesca Coppa)