Title:
Feminism at the movies : understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema
Author:
Radner, Hilary.
ISBN:
9780415895880
9780415895873
Publication Information:
Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description:
ix, 310 p. : ill., ports., ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction. "Re-vision"?: feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Masculinity in question. "The first bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Queer memories and universal emotions: A single man (2009) / "Lad flicks": discursive reconstructions of masculinity in popular film / Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after new queer cinema / New feminine subjects: a space for women? Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism / Neoliberal femininity in Miss congeniality (2000) / Girls' sexualities in The sisterhood of the traveling pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed - again / Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 going on 30 (2004) / Consuming culture(s). -- No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood
Music and the woman's film: Sex and the city: the movie (2008) / Independence at what cost? Economics and female desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends with money (2006) / feminist poetics of Sophia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Relationships, identity and family. "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby mama (2008) and the new intimacies of reproduction / Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride wars (2009), wedding envy and chick flicks / Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the worlds (2005) / Gender and violence. Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The secret life of bees (2008) / From victim to vigilante: gender, violence and revenge in The brave one (2007) and Hard candy (2005) / "When the woman looks": High tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity