The Violent Woman

Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema

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by Hilary Neroni

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

women, violence, american cinema

Publishing date

2005

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Collection

SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 218 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7914-6384-2
978-0-7914-6384-0

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Book Presentation:
Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

In The Violent Woman, Hilary Neroni brings psychoanalytically informed film theory to bear on issues of femininity, violence, and narrative in contemporary American cinema. Examining such films as Thelma and Louise, Fargo, Natural Born Killers, and The Long Kiss Goodnight, Neroni explores why American audiences are so fascinated—even excited—by cinematic representations of violent women, and what these representations reveal about violence in our society and our cinema. Neroni argues that violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals, suggesting how difficult it is for Hollywood—the greatest of ideology machines—to integrate the violent woman into its typical narrative structure.

About the Author:
Hilary Neroni is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont.

See the publisher website: State University of New York Press