Description
This book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series. Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in films such as Jackie Brown (1997), Marie Antoinette (2006), It's a Free World... (2007) and Wonder Woman (2017). They particularly look into the overlooked gendered aspects of voice-overs and the adverse tropes used to represent maternity in television series as well as the complex motif of the vagina dentata in contemporary film and television. The chapters analyze independent, art-house, Hollywood and TV productions often in transnational contexts, shedding light on how definitions of femininity are culturally specific yet cross national, class and racial lines. The contributors include renowned scholars such as Yvonne Tasker, Celestino Deleyto, David Roche and Nicole Cloarec, as well as emerging yet well-published film scholars.
Explores gender in English-language cinema and television to offer fresh perspectives on a topic that has been historically dominated by North American and British scholars.
About the Author
Marianne Kac-Vergne is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Her research interests are masculinity, femininity, Hollywood genres and science fiction. She is author of Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future (I. B. Tauris, 2017). Julie Assouly is Associate Professor of American Studies at Universite d'Artois, France. Her research themes are pictorial intertextuality, intermediality and cultural transfers in American cinema, specifically the films of the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson. She is the author of L'Amerique des freres Coen (2015).
Reviews
Address[es] enthralling issues, such as the relationship between the male gaze and spectator identification; beauty, desirability and the white and black female body ... and the gendered hierarchy in American TV series' voice-overs, to name but a few. ... The message of this essay collection is loud and clear * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788312677
Author Marianne Kac-Vergne
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Explores gender in English-language cinema and television to offer fresh perspectives on a topic that has been historically dominated by North American and British scholars.
About the Author
Marianne Kac-Vergne is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Her research interests are masculinity, femininity, Hollywood genres and science fiction. She is author of Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future (I. B. Tauris, 2017). Julie Assouly is Associate Professor of American Studies at Universite d'Artois, France. Her research themes are pictorial intertextuality, intermediality and cultural transfers in American cinema, specifically the films of the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson. She is the author of L'Amerique des freres Coen (2015).
Reviews
Address[es] enthralling issues, such as the relationship between the male gaze and spectator identification; beauty, desirability and the white and black female body ... and the gendered hierarchy in American TV series' voice-overs, to name but a few. ... The message of this essay collection is loud and clear * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *
Book Information
ISBN 9781788312677
Author Marianne Kac-Vergne
Format Hardback
Page Count 312
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
