New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

Patricia Pisters

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

New Blood in Contemporary Cinema

Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror

Patricia Pisters

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474466974

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Discusses how contemporary women directors have appropriated horror aesthetics, enlarging its generic scope and expanding its emotional spectrum

Revisits themes and concerns of the horror genre, from the perspective of women directors
Includes case studies of important female directed films, including Raw, Evolution and Atlantics
Revisits feminist themes such as female agency, gender and race relations and affect by returning to the work of feminist directors of the 1970s and 1980s (not necessarily considered as generic horror films), in comparison to contemporary women directors
Includes women of colour as well as white women directors, thus acknowledges both differences of the specific ethnic and social political contexts and shared concerns

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadžihalilović and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put ‘a poetics of horror’ to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialized perspectives in the horror genre.

Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction: Virginia’s Unruly Daughters and Carrie’s Crimson Sisters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Violence and Female Agency: Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Growing Pains: Breasts, Blood and Fangs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3. Longing and Lust, ‘Red Light’ on a ‘Dark Continent’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
4. Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Offspring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
5. Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Conclusion: Bloody Red: Poetics, Patterns, Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 26 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474466974