Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era

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Dr David Roche (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France) Cristelle Maury (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France)

Women Who Kill

Gender and Sexuality in Film and Series of the Post-Feminist Era

Dr David Roche (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France), Cristelle Maury (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France), Cristelle Maury (Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures France) , Claire Nally (Northumbria University UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
23 September 2021

Media studies; Social issues & processes; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology: sexual relations; Sexual behaviour

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture

Women Who Kill explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism.

The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films and series examined include White Men Are Cracking Up (1994); Hit & Miss (2012); Gone Girl (2014); Terminator (1984); The Walking Dead (2010); Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); Contagion (2011) and Ex Machina (2015) among others.

Edited by: Dr David Roche (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 France), Cristelle Maury (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France), Cristelle Maury (Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures France), Claire Nally (Northumbria University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 426g
ISBN: 9781350272453
ISBN 10: 1350272450
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 23 September 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Roche is Professor of Film Studies at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France and President of SERCIA. He is the author of Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction (2018) and Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s (2014), and has edited several books, including Comics and Adaptation (2018, with Benoît Mitaine and Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot), Steven Spielberg, Hollywood Humanist & Wunderkind (2018) and Intimacy in Cinema (2014, with Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot). Cristelle Maury is Associate Professor at Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. She has published many articles on classical film noir and on the relationships between feminist film criticism and films. She has co-edited three issues of Miranda, on new forms of adaptations, on circulations and transfers in film, and on mapping gender.