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The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physically, emotionally, or on some other level, transformation allows female protagonists to negotiate their own complex desires and to resist the compulsory marriage plot. A sweeping study of Hollywood from Now, Voyager, The Heiress, and Flamingo Road, to Carrie, the Alien films, The Brave One, and the Slasher Horror genre, this book boldly unsettles commonplace understandings of genre film, female sexuality, and Freudian theory as it makes a strong new case for the queer relevance of female representation.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema
• Author: David Greven
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214
• EAN: 9781137354990
• ISBN: 1137354992
• ID: 01339756
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 217 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. September 2013

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