Heightened genre and women's filmmaking in Hollywood 1st ed.

Author

• Harrod, Mary

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030709945

Series

Subject(s)

• WOMEN IN THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
• WOMEN MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DIRECTORS

Notes

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Abstract

Despite the widely publicised prejudice faced by women in Hollywood, since around 1990 a significant minority of female directors have been making commercially and culturally impactful films there across the full range of genres. This book explores movies by filmmakers Amy Heckerling, Nora Ephron, Nancy Meyers, Catherine Hardwicke, Sofia Coppola, Kimberly Peirce, Kathryn Bigelow and Greta Gerwig, including many which are still critically neglected or derided, seeing them as offering a new understanding of genre filmmaking. That is, like many other contemporary films but in a striking proportion within the smaller set of mainstream movies by women, this body of work revels in a heightened genre status that allows its authors to simultaneously address ‘intellectual’ cinephilic pleasures and bodily-emotive ones. Arguing through close analysis that these films demonstrate the inseparability of such strategies of engagement in contemporary genre cinema, Heightened Genre reclaims women’s mainstream filmmaking for feminism through a recalibration of genre theory itself.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 304 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction: Little Women and Cine-filles --
2. Genre as Pastiche in Women's Filmmaking --
3. Pastiching the Popular --
4. Art Imitating Life Imitating Art --
5. Conclusion: Communal Autofiction and Public Subjectivity in The Bling Ring.

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00875/21	791.43023309252 Har H	Online !	Available