Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0252078314 ISBN 13: 9780252078316

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2012

Riassunto

This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely global perspective, these essays examine the intersection of gender and genre in not only Hollywood films but also in independent, European, Indian, and Hong Kong cinemas. Working in the area of postcolonial cinema, contributors raise issues dealing with indigenous and global cinemas and argue that contemporary genres have shifted considerably as both notions of gender and forms of genre have changed. The volume addresses topics such as the history of feminist approaches to the study of genre in film, issues of female agency in postmodernity, changes taking place in supposedly male-dominated genres, concepts of genre and its use of gender in global cinema, and the relationship between gender and sexuality in film.

Contributors are Ira Bhaskar, Steven Cohan, Luke Collins, Pam Cook, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Derek Kane-Meddock, E. Ann Kaplan, Samiha Matin, Katie Model, E. Deidre Pribram, Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, Adam Segal, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Deborah Thomas, and Xiangyang Chen.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Christine Gledhill is a professor of media studies at the University of Sunderland. She is the author or editor of numerous books, includingNationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0252078314
• ISBN 13: 9780252078316
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 274
• Redattore: Gledhill Christine