Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Author: J. Gwynne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113730684X
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By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production.

Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Author: J. Gwynne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113730684X
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By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production.

American Postfeminist Cinema

American Postfeminist Cinema
Author: Michele Schreiber
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748693378
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In light of their tremendous gains in the political and professional sphere, and their ever expanding options, why is it that most contemporary American films aimed at women still focus almost exclusively on their pursuit of a heterosexual romantic relationship? American Postfeminist Cinema explores this question and is the first book to examine the symbiotic relationship between heterosexual romance and postfeminist culture. The book argues that since 1980, postfeminism's most salient tensions and anxieties have been reflected and negotiated in the American romance film. Case studies of a broad range of Hollywood and independent films reveal how the postfeminist romance cycle is intertwined with contemporary women's ambivalence and broader cultural anxieties about women's changing social and political status.

Women on Screen

Women on Screen
Author: M. Waters
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0230301975
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A timely intervention into debates on the representation of feminist and feminine identities in contemporary visual culture. The essays in this collection interrogate how and why certain formulations of feminism and femininity are currently prevalent in mainstream cinema and television, offering new insights into postfeminist media phenomena.

Feminism at the Movies

Feminism at the Movies
Author: Hilary Radner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136519122
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Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities. The volume contains essays by following contributors: Taunya Lovell Banks, Heather Brook, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Michael DeAngelis, Barry Keith Grant, Kelly Kessler, Hannah Hamad, Christina Lane (with Nicole Richter), JaneMaree Maher, David Hansen-Miller (with Rosalind Gill), Gary Needham, Sarah Projansky, Hilary Radner, Rob Schaap, Yael D Sherman, Michele Shreiber, Janet Staiger, Peter Stapleton, Rebecca Stringer, Yvonne Tasker, and Ewa Ziarek.

Chick Flicks

Chick Flicks
Author: Suzanne Ferriss
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008-03-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135895953
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With 11 original essays, this edited volume examines 'chick flicks' within the larger context of 'chick culture' as well as women's cinema. The essays consider chick flicks from a variety of angles, touching on issues of film history, female sexuality, femininity, age, race, ethnicity, and consumerism.

Interrogating Postfeminism

Interrogating Postfeminism
Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822340324
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Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film

Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film
Author: Sarah Hill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350120324
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In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinema's engagement with contemporary girlhood has - unlike its Hollywood counterpart - been largely ignored until now. Sarah Hill's Young Women, Girls and Postfeminism in Contemporary British Film provides the first book-length study of how young femininity has been constructed, both in films like the St. Trinians franchise and by critically acclaimed directors like Andrea Arnold, Carol Morley and Lone Scherfig. Hill offers new ways to understand how postfeminism informs British cinema and how it is adapted to fit its specific geographical context. By interrogating UK cinema through this lens, Hill paints a diverse and distinctive portrait of modern femininity and consolidates the important academic links between film, feminist media and girlhood studies.

Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema

Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema
Author: Joel Gwynne
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0231850980
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Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement with what would otherwise be difficult affective terrain. Focusing on marginal productions in Anglo-American contexts, this collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, particularly embodied deviations from normative cultural scripts. It explores transgressions acted through and written on the body, and the ways in which corporeality inscribes gender discourse and reflects cultural and institutional power. Films analyzed include Mysterious Skin (2004), Shame (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013), and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Navigating queer politics, taboo fantasy, body modification, fetishism, sex addiction, and underage sex, essays problematize understandings of adult agency, childhood innocence, and healthy desire, locating sex and gender as sites of oppression, liberation, and resistance.

The Contemporary Femme Fatale

The Contemporary Femme Fatale
Author: Katherine Farrimond
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 131720817X
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The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and narrative. This book charts the articulations of the femme fatale in American cinema of the past twenty years, and contends that, despite her problematic relationship with feminism, she offers a vital means for reading the connections between mainstream cinema and representations of female agency. The films discussed raise questions about the limits and potential of positioning women who meet highly normative standards of beauty as powerful icons of female agency. They point towards the constant shifting between patriarchal appropriation and feminist recuperation that inevitably accompanies such representations within mainstream media contexts.