Feminism at the movies : understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema

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Feminism at the movies : understanding gender in contemporary popular cinema

edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer

Routledge, 2011

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • "Re-vision"? : feminist film criticism in the twenty-first century / Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer
  • "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
  • Enchanted (2007) by postfeminism : gender, irony, and the new romantic comedy / 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
  • 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 Sofia Coppola : spectacle and self-consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006) / Christina Lane and Nicole Richter
  • "Eggs in many baskets" : Juno (2007), Baby mama (2008), and the new intimacies of reproduction / JaneMaree 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
  • Kinship and racist violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The secret life of bees (2008) / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
  • From victim to vigilante: gender, violence and revenge in The brave one (2007) and Hard candy (2005) / Rebecca Stringer
  • "When the woman looks" : Haute tension (2003) and the horrors of heteronormativity / Barry Keith Grant

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