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Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction / Christine Gledhill -- Refiguring genre and gender. The genius of genre and ingenuity of women / Jane Gaines -- No fixed address: the women's picture from outrage to blue steel / Pam Cook -- Circulating emotion: race, gender, and genre in Crash / E. Deidre Pribram -- 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Luke Collins -- Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / E. Ann Kaplan -- Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Yvonne Tasker -- Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Samiha Matin -- Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Lucy Fischer -- Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. It's a Mann's world? / Adam Segal -- Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Deborah Thomas -- Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Katie Model -- Genre and gender transnational. Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar -- Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen -- Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega -- Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Derek Kane-Meddock -- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer -- "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Steven Cohan This remarkable collection challenges traditional ways of thinking about the relationship between gender and genre, understanding their meeting as a mutually transformative encounter. Responding to postmodernist conceptions of genre and postfeminist theories of gender and sexuality, these essays move beyond the limits of representation. Testing new thinking about genre, gender, and sexuality against closely analyzed films, they explore generic convention as putting into play what our culture makes of us, while finding in genre's repetitions infinite possibilities of cross-generic, cross-gender, cross-sex permutation. At the same time the aesthetic and emotional dimensions of gender and sexuality emerge as elements fueling the dramatic worlds of film genres, producing in the encounter new gendered perceptions, affects, and effects. _x000B__x000B_Recognizing the intensifying transnational context of film production and responding to postcolonial perspectives, this volume includes essays that explore the transformational transactions between gender and genre in the meeting between world-circulating Hollywood generic practices and American independent, European, Indian, and Hong Kong cinemas. Such revised concepts of genre and gender question taken-for-granted relationships between authorship and genre, between center and periphery, and between feminism and generic filmmaking. They consequently rethink the gendering of genres, filmmakers, and their audiences. _x000B__x000B_Contributors are Ira Bhaskar, Steven Cohan, Luke Collins, Pam Cook, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Derek Kane-Meddock, E. Ann Kaplan, Samiha Matin, Katie Model, E. Deidre Pribram, Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, Adam Segal, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Deborah Thomas, and Xiangyang Chen |
