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The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema

The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema

Neroni, Hilary

Paperback

Series: Suny Feminist Criticism and Theory

CriminologyFilm StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0791463842
ISBN13: 9780791463840
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Apr 21 2005
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.

In The Violent Woman, Hilary Neroni brings psychoanalytically informed film theory to bear on issues of femininity, violence, and narrative in contemporary American cinema. Examining such films as Thelma and Louise, Fargo, Natural Born Killers, and The Long Kiss Goodnight, Neroni explores why American audiences are so fascinated-even excited-by cinematic representations of violent women, and what these representations reveal about violence in our society and our cinema. Neroni argues that violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals, suggesting how difficult it is for Hollywood-the greatest of ideology machines-to integrate the violent woman into its typical narrative structure.

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