New blood in contemporary cinema : women directors and the poetics of horror

New blood in contemporary cinema : women directors and the poetics of horror /

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The book investigates contemporary women directors who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pisters, Patricia (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2020]
Subjects:	Women motion picture producers and directors. Horror films. filmmakers. PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Direction & Production. Horror films Women motion picture producers and directors
Online Access:	Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Virginia's Unruly Daughters and Carrie's Crimson Sisters
1 Violence and Female Agency: Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind
2 Growing Pains: Breasts, Blood and Fangs
3 Longing and Lust, 'Red Light' on a 'Dark Continent'
4 Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Offspring
5 Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice
Conclusion Bloody Red: Poetics, Patterns, Politics.