Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema
Description
Violent women in cinema pose an exciting challenge to spectators, overturning ideas of 'typical' feminine subjectivity. This book explores the representation of homicidal women in contemporary art and independent cinema. Examining narrative, style and spectatorship, Loreck investigates the power of art cinema to depict transgressive femininity.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesPsychologySocial PsychologyArtPerforming ArtsFilmDirection & ProductionTelevisionSocial Classes & Economic DisparitySociologyWomen's Studies
2016Book
Author(s)Janice Loreck
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137525079
LanguageEnglish
