Feminism at the movies understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema
Feminism at the movies understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema
- London Routledge 2011
- ix,310p. ill., ports., 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. "Re-vision"?: feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Masculinity in question. "The first bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Queer memories and universal emotions: A single man (2009) / "Lad flicks": discursive reconstructions of masculinity in popular film / Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after new queer cinema / New feminine subjects: a space for women? Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism / Neoliberal femininity in Miss congeniality (2000) / Girls' sexualities in The sisterhood of the traveling pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed - again / Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 going on 30 (2004) / Consuming culture(s). -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Music and the woman's film: Sex and the city: the movie (2008) / Independence at what cost? Economics and female desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends with money (2006) / feminist poetics of Sophia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Relationships, identity and family. "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby mama (2008) and the new intimacies of reproduction / Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride wars (2009), wedding envy and chick flicks / Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the worlds (2005) / Gender and violence. Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The secret life of bees (2008) / From victim to vigilante: gender, violence and revenge in The brave one (2007) and Hard candy (2005) / "When the woman looks": High tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer -- Janet Staiger -- Michael DeAngelis -- David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill -- Gary Needham -- Yvonne Tasker -- Yael D. Sherman -- Sarah Projansky -- Taunya Lovell Banks -- Mridula Nath Chakraborty -- Hilary Radner -- Rob Schaap -- Peter Stapleton -- Michele Schreiber -- Christina Lane and Nicole Richter -- Jane Maree Maher -- Kelly Kessler -- Heather Brook -- Hannah Hamad -- Ewa Ziarek -- Rebecca Stringer -- Barry Keith Grant. The
9780415895880
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Feminism and motion pictures.
Feminist films--History and criticism.
Women in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Motion pictures for women--United States.
791.43082 / FE-
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction. "Re-vision"?: feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Masculinity in question. "The first bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Queer memories and universal emotions: A single man (2009) / "Lad flicks": discursive reconstructions of masculinity in popular film / Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after new queer cinema / New feminine subjects: a space for women? Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism / Neoliberal femininity in Miss congeniality (2000) / Girls' sexualities in The sisterhood of the traveling pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed - again / Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 going on 30 (2004) / Consuming culture(s). -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Music and the woman's film: Sex and the city: the movie (2008) / Independence at what cost? Economics and female desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends with money (2006) / feminist poetics of Sophia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Relationships, identity and family. "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby mama (2008) and the new intimacies of reproduction / Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride wars (2009), wedding envy and chick flicks / Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the worlds (2005) / Gender and violence. Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The secret life of bees (2008) / From victim to vigilante: gender, violence and revenge in The brave one (2007) and Hard candy (2005) / "When the woman looks": High tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer -- Janet Staiger -- Michael DeAngelis -- David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill -- Gary Needham -- Yvonne Tasker -- Yael D. Sherman -- Sarah Projansky -- Taunya Lovell Banks -- Mridula Nath Chakraborty -- Hilary Radner -- Rob Schaap -- Peter Stapleton -- Michele Schreiber -- Christina Lane and Nicole Richter -- Jane Maree Maher -- Kelly Kessler -- Heather Brook -- Hannah Hamad -- Ewa Ziarek -- Rebecca Stringer -- Barry Keith Grant. The
9780415895880
40019983734
2011013486
Feminism and motion pictures.
Feminist films--History and criticism.
Women in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Motion pictures for women--United States.
791.43082 / FE-