[ecrea] New book: Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers

*/NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT/*

*Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers*

*By Katarzyna Paszkiewicz *

Hardback / 2018 / 280 pages / ISBN 9781474425261 / £80.00 / $125

Published by Edinburgh University Press

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*_About the book_*

/Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers/examines the 
significance of women’s contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the 
work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood – Kathryn Bigelow, 
Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Kelly Reichardt, among others. Exploring 
genres as diverse as horror, the war movie, the Western, the costume 
biopic and the romantic comedy, the book interrogates questions of 
‘genre’ authorship; the blurring of the borders between commercial and 
independent cinema and gendered discourses of (de)authorisation that 
operate within each sphere; ‘male’–‘female’ genre divisions; and the 
issue of authorial subversion in film and popular culture in a wider sense.

With its focus on close analysis of the films themselves and the 
cultural and ideological meanings involved in the reception of genre 
texts authored by women, this book expands critical debates around 
women’s cinema and offers new perspectives on how contemporary 
filmmakers explore the aesthetic and imaginative power of genre.

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*“**/Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers/**is a 
challenging, complex and critically intelligent work. It offers new 
perspectives on the cinema’s fraught relationship with women directors 
and their significant contribution to popular genre cinema from the war 
and horror film to the western and biopic. An important addition to 
feminist film theory, Paszkiewicz’s book is essential reading for anyone 
interested in the most recent debates around gender, genre and the 
achievement of women filmmakers*.”

Barbara Creed, University of Melbourne, author of /The 
Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis/

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*_Table of Contents_*

List of Figure

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Impossible Liaisons? Genre and Feminist Film Criticism

1: Subversive Auteur, Subversive Genre

2: Repeat in order to Remake. Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body

3: Hollywood Transvestite. Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker

4: Genre in the Margins. Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff

5: Genre on the Surface. Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette

6: What a Woman Wants? Nancy Meyers’s The Intern;

Afterword: Desperately Seeking Wonder Women

Bibliography

Index

*_Find out more about /Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women 
Filmmakers/ on the Edinburgh University Press website 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-genre-authorship-and-contemporary-women-filmmakers.html>_*

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-genre-authorship-and-contemporary-women-filmmakers.html


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