Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema

Loreck, Janice

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2016-02-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137525079

DOI: 10.1057/9781137525086

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 179.0