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The New Avengers (Paperback)
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The New Avengers (Paperback)
Series: Inside Popular Film
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Loot Price R589
Discovery Miles 5 890
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A study of the rape-revenge film, in which Jacinda Read suggests
that the rape-revenge cycle can be read as one of the primary ways
in which Hollywood has attempted to make sense of feminism and the
changing shape of heterosexual femininity in the post-1970 period.
Arguing that rape-revenge is better understood not as a genre, but
as a narrative structure, the author analyzes the ways in which
various deployments of this structure rework the "mass cultural
fictions of femininity" inscribed in the genres over which they
have been mapped. From the "frontier femmes" of rape-revenge
westerns such as "Hannie Caulder", through the "erotic avengers" of
neo-noirs such as "Batman Returns", to the "maternal avengers" of
rape-revenge melodrama such as "An Eye for an Eye", this work
explores the popular understandings of feminism that circulate
around these generic manifestations of the female avenger. Applying
ideas from feminist cultural studies to the analysis of film, and
combining detailed textual analysis with contextual analysis, the
book challenges many of the received orthodoxies of feminist
theory. -- .
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