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Katarzyna Paszkiewicz - Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers

Av Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

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Beskrivning
This book focuses specifically on the contribution made by American female filmmakers to popular genre film. It asks: what do women who are engaged creatively with film industries do with genre and what does genre do with them? Through analysis of the films themselves, their reception and the industrial and cultural contexts in which these films were released, the book challenges traditional concepts of film authorship and male/female genre divisions, as well as re-evaluating certain genres as a space worthy of feminist criticism, such as horror cinema, the Western, war film and romantic comedy. It argues that women work within the genericity of audiovisual storytelling not only to "undo" or "subvert" popular formats, but also to draw creatively on their generative force.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-06-30
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 592 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 256
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781474425261
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Katarzyna Paszkiewicz lectures in the English Studies Department at the University of Barcelona.

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Interested in the relationship been genre and gender, Paszkiewicz proposes that genre is both constricting and liberating for female filmmakers. She examines recent films directed by female auteurs in genres considered "male":　Jennifer’s Body (2009), a horror film directed by Karyn Kusama; The Hurt Locker (2008), a war film by Kathryn Bigelow; Meek’s Cutoff (2010), a western by Kelly Reichardt; Marie Antoinette (2006), a costume drama by Sofia Coppola; and The Intern (2015), a romantic comedy by Nancy Meyers. Each of these women demonstrates not only an encyclopedic knowledge of the genre in which she is working but also a willingness to play with and on the conventions of the genre, imbuing it with a feminine perspective. Paszkiewicz’s own knowledge, both of genres and of the scholarly literature on the subject, is equally encyclopedic, and one would say that she has mastered her own particular genre—the academic theoretical essay.'

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