Patricia Pisters
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror
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Patricia Pisters' book explores contemporary women directors who use horror aesthetics to expand the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the genre, covering themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties, and politics. It highlights a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the scope and emotional spectrum of the horror genre.
Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2020
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadihalilovi, and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put a poetics of horror to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties, and politics, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring, and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.
Weight: 522g
Dimension: 152 x 240 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474466950
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