{"product_id":"women-who-kill-9781350115590","title":"Women Who Kill","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Who Kill\u003c\/i\u003e explores several lines of inquiry: the female murderer as a figure that destabilizes order; the tension between criminal and victim; the relationship between crime and expression (or the lack thereof); and the paradox whereby a crime can be both an act of destruction and a creative assertion of agency. In doing so, the contributors assess the influence of feminist, queer and gender studies on mainstream television and cinema, notably in the genres (film noir, horror, melodrama) that have received the most critical attention from this perspective. They also analyse the politics of representation by considering these works of fiction in their contexts and addressing some of the ambiguities raised by postfeminism.The book is structured in three parts: Neo-femmes Fatales; Action Babes and Monstrous Women. Films and series examined include \u003ci\u003eWhite Men Are Cracking Up \u003c\/i\u003e(1994); \u003ci\u003eHit \u0026amp; Miss\u003c\/i\u003e (2012)\u003ci\u003e; Gone Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(2014); \u003ci\u003eTerminator\u003c\/i\u003e (1984)\u003ci\u003e; The Walkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Editor's Introduction, Angela Smith and Claire Nally Introduction, Cristelle Maury and David Roche  \u003cb\u003ePart I Neo-Femmes Fatales\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter 1 The Femme Fatale of the 1990s Erotic Thriller: A Post-feminist Killer?, Delphine Letort Chapter 2 The African Femme Fatale: Re-Appropriation of a Mythical Figure in \u003ci\u003eWhite Men Are Cracking Up\u003c\/i\u003e (Ngozi Onwurah, 1994), Emilie Herbert Chapter 3 Transwoman Who Kills: \u003ci\u003eHit \u0026amp; Miss \u003c\/i\u003e(Sky Atlantic, 2012), Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot Chapter 4 Genre and Gender in \u003ci\u003eSin City: A Dame to Kill For\u003c\/i\u003e (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2014), Christophe Gelly Chapter 5 Textbook Femme Fatale, De-eroticised Neo-noir Heroine or Post-Feminist Woman Who Kills? Genre Trouble in \u003ci\u003eGone Girl\u003c\/i\u003e (David Fincher, 2014), Cristelle Maury  \u003cb\u003ePart II Action Babes\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter 6 From Sarah Connor 2.0 to Sarah Connor 3.0: Women Who Kill in the \u003ci\u003eTerminator\u003c\/i\u003e Franchise, Marianne Kac-Vergne Chapter 7 Girls against Women: Contrasting Female Violence in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias, Adrienne Boutang Chapter 8 Motherhood, Domesticity and Nurturing in the Post-Apocalyptic World: Negotiating Femininity in \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (AMC, 2010-), Marta Suarez Chapter 9 An Audience Studies Approach to Tarantino’s Violent Heroines in \u003ci\u003eKill Bill\u003c\/i\u003e (2003-2004) and \u003ci\u003eDeath Proof\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), Connor Winterton Chapter 10 Licensed to Kill? Arming and Disarming Female Killers in Action Film and Parody in \u003ci\u003eMad Max: Fury Road\u003c\/i\u003e (George Miller, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eSpy \u003c\/i\u003e(Paul Feig, 2015), Elizabeth Mullen  \u003cb\u003ePart III Monstrous Women\u003c\/b\u003e Chapter  11 The Women Who Killed Too Many: \u003ci\u003eContagion\u003c\/i\u003e (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) and Female Virality\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eJulia Echeverría Chapter 12 Black Female Empowerment, Intersectionality and the Ganja character in \u003ci\u003eDa Sweet Blood of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e (Spike Lee, 2014), Hélène Charlery Chapter 13 Monstrous Feminists? Witches, Murder, and Avatars of (Post-)feminism in American Horror Story: \u003ci\u003eCoven\u003c\/i\u003e (FX, 2013-2014), Mikaël Toulza Chapter 14 Furies and Female Empowerment: \u003ci\u003eThe Sword and the Pen in Byzantium\u003c\/i\u003e (Neil Jordan, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eCrimson Peak\u003c\/i\u003e (Guillermo del Toro, 2015), Carolina Abello Onofre and Christophe Chambost Chapter 15 Masculine Cultures of Technology and the Robotic Female Avenger in \u003ci\u003eEx Machina\u003c\/i\u003e (Alex Garland, 2015), Samantha Lindop Chapter 16 “You’re a Dangerous Girl”: Beauty and Violence in \u003ci\u003eThe Neon Demon\u003c\/i\u003e (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016), Janice Loreck Chapter 17 Evidence of Cruel Optimism - Nick Broomfield’s Aileen: \u003ci\u003eLife and Death of a Serial Killer\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), Rosie White  Afterword Women Who Kill after #MeToo, David Roche and Cristelle Maury  Contributors  Index\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407509987671,"sku":"9781350115590","price":127.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350115590.jpg?v=1730499616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-who-kill-9781350115590","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}