{"product_id":"feminism-at-the-movies-9780415895880","title":"Feminism at the Movies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema \u003c\/em\u003eexamines the way that contemporary film reflects todayâs changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume contains essays by following contributors: Taunya Lovell Banks, Heather Brook, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Mich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With the contemporary 'woman’s film' routinely written off as the ultimate disreputable genre, this useful collection reminds us of what is to be gained by thoughtful feminist engagement with the form.\" —Diane Negra, Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture, University College Dublin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Exploring pretty boys and lad flicks, girly films and femme fare, chicks with dicks—and concrete saws!—and much more, \u003cem\u003eFeminism at the Movies\u003c\/em\u003e samples a wide range of post-2000 films. The incisive analyses provided here expand the ways feminist optics are applied to contemporary media debates…a must-read!\" —Christine Holmlund, Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor of Cinema Studies and French, University of Tennessee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Radner and Stringer's wonderful anthology offers a startling range of accomplished essays, spanning both broadly popular Hollywood fare (\u003cem\u003eMiss Congeniality\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e) and independent art cinema (\u003cem\u003eJuno\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHigh Tension\u003c\/em\u003e). The original essays in this vibrant new work both refer back to the foundations of film studies in 1980s feminism, and chart a path toward a new century of critical analysis.\" —Walter Metz, Professor of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction: \"Re-Vision\"?: Feminist Film Criticism in the Twenty-first Century\u003c\/strong\u003e, Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI. Masculinity in Question\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \"The First Bond Who Bleeds, Literally and Metaphorically\": Gendered Spectatorship for ‘Pretty Boy’ Action Movies, \u003cem\u003eJanet Staiger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Queer Memories and Universal Emotions: A Single Man (2009), \u003cem\u003eMichael DeAngelis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. \"Lad Flicks\": Discursive Reconstructions of Masculinity in Popular Film, \u003cem\u003eDavid Hansen-Miller and Rosalind Gill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. \u003cem\u003eTransamerica \u003c\/em\u003e(2005): The Road to the Multiplex after New Queer Cinema, \u003cem\u003eGary Needham\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. New Feminine Subjects: A Space for Women?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Enchanted (2007) by Postfeminism, \u003cem\u003eYvonne Tasker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Neoliberal Femininity in Miss Congeniality (2000), \u003cem\u003eYael D Sherman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Girls’ Sexualities in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Universe: Feminist Challenges and Missed Opportunities, \u003cem\u003eSarah Projansky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. \u003cem\u003eMichael Clayton\u003c\/em\u003e (2007): Women Lawyers Betrayed - Again, \u003cem\u003eTaunya Lovell Banks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Crossing Race, Crossing Sex in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham (2002): Managing Anxiety in Multicultural Britain, \u003cem\u003eMridula Nath Chakraborty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Speaking the Name of the Father in the Neo-Romantic Comedy: 13 Going On 30 (2004), \u003cem\u003eHilary Radner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Consuming Culture(s)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. No Country for Old Women: Gendering Cinema in Conglomerate Hollywood, \u003cem\u003eRob Schaap\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Music and the Woman’s Film: Sex and the City: The Movie (2008), \u003cem\u003ePeter Stapleton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. Independence at What Cost? Economics and Female Desire in Nicole Holofcener’s Friends With Money (2006), \u003cem\u003eMichele Schreiber\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14. The Feminist Poetics of Sophia Coppola: Spectacle and Self-Consciousness in Marie Antoinette (2006), \u003cem\u003eChristina Lane and Nicole Richter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. Relationships, Identity and Family\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15. \"Eggs in Many Baskets\": Juno (2007), Baby Mama (2008) and the New Intimacies of Reproduction, \u003cem\u003eJane Maree Maher\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16. Temporarily Kissing Jessica Stein (2001): Negotiating (and Negating) Lesbian Sexuality in Popular Film, \u003cem\u003eKelly Kessler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17. \"Die, Bridezilla, Die!\": Bride Wars (2009), Wedding Envy and Chick Flicks, \u003cem\u003eHeather Brook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18. Extreme Parenting: Recuperating Fatherhood in Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005), \u003cem\u003eHannah Hamad \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV. Gender and Violence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19. Kinship and Racist Violence in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Secret Life of Bees (2008), \u003cem\u003eEwa Ziarek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20. 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