[ecrea] New book: The Nasty Woman and the neo femme fatale in contemporary cinema

Some of you might be interested in my new monograph which has just been 
published by Routledge 
(https://www.amazon.com/Fatale-Contemporary-Cinema-Routledge-Feminism/dp/1138586447)

with amazing endorsements from Lucy Bolton, Elizabeth Cowie, Davina 
Quinlivan and Emma Wilson.  Here they are:

‘In a series of highly thought-provoking film analyses Agnieszka 
Piotrowska re-writes the/femme fatale/as a ‘nasty woman’ who is a danger 
not just to men but also to cinema’s notion of woman. The figure of 
Antigone is central to her account of a feminine agency that does not 
give up on her desire but which is also not simply a matter of revenge. 
Instead Piotrowska shows how each film demonstrates the entanglement of 
drive and desire, of sex and violence in being a feminine subject./The 
Nasty Woman/looks awry at the films it discusses, exposing their 
paradoxical subversion of both cinema’s and feminism’s binaries in 
writing that is highly engaging as both scholarly and personal.’

Elizabeth Cowie, Professor Emeritus, Film Studies University of Kent, UK

‘This is a brave and compelling book. Filmmaker and interdisciplinary 
scholar, Agnieszka Piotrowska, introduces the notion of the "nasty 
woman" into film scholarship, brilliantly updating discussions of 
the/femme fatale/, and looking afresh at female subjectivity, power and 
erotic energy. In writing that is gritty, lively, and sometimes 
personal, partial and sensitive, Piotrowska engages with debates about 
#metoo, and feminist killjoys, as she also looks back to Antigone to 
think through ways of not giving up on one’s desire.’

Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts, 
University of Cambridge, UK

‘In this volume, Piotrowska has named a new cinematic archetype. The 
"nasty woman", written by a woman, directed by a woman, harks back to 
Antigone and Medusa, and draws on the/femme fatale/, but is a thoroughly 
modern model for our times. Drawing on feminist theory and 
psychoanalysis, this timely intervention in film theory tackles women 
whom we don’t have to like, but about whom we want to know more about.’

Lucy Bolton, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of 
London, UK

‘This book offers up a timely, incisive analysis of the representation 
of 'bad' women in contemporary cinema -- those whose moral choices and 
troubling, embodied actions mark an ethical shift in our current 
contemporary climate. Framed through a direct reference to Donald 
Trump's referral to his political rival, Hilary Clinton, as a 'nasty 
woman', Piotrowska carefully re-examines seminal films such as Arnold's 
Red Road and Polley's The Stories We Tell, drawing on a range of 
theoretical contexts from Lacanian theory to Laura Marks.’

Davina Quinlivan, Senior Lecturer in Performance and Screen Studies, 
Kingston University, UK


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