Feminism at the movies : understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema / Hilary Radner, Rebecca Stringer [editors].

Bibliographic Details
Language:English
Published: Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Subjects:
Feminism and motion pictures.
Feminist films > History and criticism.
Women in motion pictures.
Masculinity in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Motion pictures for women > United States.
Physical Description:ix, 310 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. "Re-vision"?: feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer
  • Masculinity in question. "The first bond who bleeds, literally and metaphorically": gendered spectatorship for "pretty boy" action movies / Janet Staiger
  • Queer memories and universal emotions: A single man (2009) / Michael DeAngelis
  • "Lad flicks": discursive reconstructions of masculinity in popular film / David Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill
  • Transamerica (2005): the road to the multiplex after new queer cinema / Gary Needham
  • New feminine subjects: a space for women? Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism / Yvonne Tasker
  • Neoliberal femininity in Miss congeniality (2000) / Yael D. Sherman
  • Girls' sexualities in The sisterhood of the traveling pants universe: feminist challenges and missed opportunities / Sarah Projansky
  • Michael Clayton (2007): women lawyers betrayed-- again / Taunya Lovell Banks
  • Crossing race, crossing sex in Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham (2002): managing anxiety in multicultural Britain / Mridula Nath Chakraborty
  • Speaking the name of the father in the neo-romantic comedy: 13 going on 30 (2004) / Hilary Radner
  • Consuming culture(s).
  • No country for old women: gendering cinema in conglomerate Hollywood / Rob Schaap
  • Music and the woman's film: Sex and the city: the movie (2008) / Peter Stapleton
  • Independence at what cost? Economics and female desire in Nicole Holofcener's Friends with money (2006) / Michele Schreiber
  • The feminist poetics of Sophia Coppola: spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christina Lane and Nicole Richter
  • Relationships, identity and family. "Eggs in many baskets": Juno (2007), Baby mama (2008) and the new intimacies of reproduction / Jane Maree Maher
  • Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): negotiating (and negating) lesbian sexuality in popular film / Kelly Kessler
  • "Die, Bridezilla, die!": Bride wars (2009), wedding envy and chick flicks / Heather Brook
  • Extreme parenting: recuperating fatherhood in Steven Spielberg's War of the worlds (2005) / Hannah Hamad
  • Gender and violence. Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The secret life of bees (2008) / Ewa Ziarek
  • From victim to vigilante: gender, violence and revenge in The brave one (2007) and Hard candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer
  • "When the woman looks": High tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant.