The New Avengers

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de Jacinda Read

Type

Essais

Sujet

Sociologie

Mots Clés

féminisme, Etats-Unis

Année d'édition

2000

Editeur

Manchester University Press

Collection

Inside Popular Film

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 304 pages
14,5 x 22 cm

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-7190-5905-4
978-0-7190-5905-6

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Description de l'ouvrage :
A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period. Arguing that rape-revenge is better understood not as a genre, but as a narrative structure, the author analyzes the ways in which various deployments of this structure rework the "mass cultural fictions of femininity" inscribed in the genres over which they have been mapped. From the "frontier femmes" of rape-revenge westerns such as "Hannie Caulder", through the "erotic avengers" of neo-noirs such as "Batman Returns", to the "maternal avengers" of rape-revenge melodrama such as "An Eye for an Eye", this work explores the popular understandings of feminism that circulate around these generic manifestations of the female avenger. Applying ideas from feminist cultural studies to the analysis of film, and combining detailed textual analysis with contextual analysis, the book challenges many of the received orthodoxies of feminist theory.

À propos de l'auteur :
Jacinda Read is Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University

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