Representations of femininity in American genre cinema : the woman’s film, film noir, and modern horror / David Greven.

Greven, David.
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references and index..
  • Introduction : femininity and film genres — Freud and classical Hollywood. Freud and the death-mother — Transformations of the woman’s film : or, feminine myths — Modern horror. Modern horror as the concealed woman’s film — Medusa in the mirror : Brian de Palma’s Carrie — Demeter and Persephone in space : transformation, femininity, and myth in the alien films — The finalizing woman : horror, femininity, and queer monsters — Coda : the brave one.

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