Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers - by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, <em>Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers</em> sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola and Kelly Reichard.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Examining the significance of women's work in popular film genres, <em> Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers </em>sheds light on women's contribution to genre cinema through an exploration of filmmakers like Kathryn Bigelow, Diablo Cody, Sofia Coppola and Kelly Reichard. Exploring genres as diverse as horror, the war movie, the Western, the costume biopic and the romantic comedy, the book interrogates questions of authorial subversion, gendered concepts of film authorship and male/female genre divisions, as well as re-evaluating certain genres as a space worthy of feminist criticism. By offering an analysis of the films themselves and the circumstances of production and reception, this book redefines political, theoretical and commercial conceptualisations of women's cinema, and offers new perspectives on how women filmmakers explore the aesthetic and imaginative power of genre.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'A challenging, complex and critically intelligent work. It offers new perspectives on the cinema's fraught relationship with women directors and their significant contribution to popular genre cinema from the war and horror film to the western and biopic. An important addition to feminist film theory, Paszkiewicz's book is essential reading for anyone interested in the most recent debates around gender, genre and the achievement of women filmmakers.' Barbara Creed, University of Melbourne, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers examines the significance of women's contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood - Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers and Kelly Reichardt, among others. Exploring genres as diverse as horror, the war movie, the Western, the costume biopic and the romantic comedy, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz interrogates questions of 'genre' authorship; the blurring of the borders between commercial and independent cinema and gendered discourses of (de)authorisation that operate within each sphere; 'male'-'female' genre divisions; and the issue of authorial subversion in film and popular culture in a wider sense. With its focus on close analysis of the films themselves and the cultural and ideological meanings involved in the reception of genre texts authored by women, this book expands critical debates around women's cinema and offers new perspectives on how contemporary filmmakers explore the aesthetic and imaginative power of genre. Katarzyna Paszkiewicz lectures in the English Studies Department at the University of Barcelona. Cover image: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, 2008 (c) Summit Entertainment/Photofest Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2526-1 Barcode<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br>"Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers is a challenging, complex and critically intelligent work. It offers new perspectives on the cinema�s fraught relationship with women directors and their significant contribution to popular genre cinema from the war and horror film to the western and biopic. An important addition to feminist film theory, Paszkiewicz's book is essential reading for anyone interested in the most recent debates around gender, genre and the achievement of women filmmakers." -- Professor Barbara Creed, The University of Melbourne, author of The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis<p></p><br>"Paszkiewicz's knowledge, both of genres and of the scholarly literature on the subject, is encyclopedic, and one would say that she has mastered her own particular genre-the academic theoretical essay." -- W. A. Vincent, Michigan State University, CHOICE <br><p></p><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Katarzyna Paszkiewicz lectures in the Department of Modern Languages and English Studies at the University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on film genres and women's cinema in the USA and Spain. She has published book chapters and journal articles on Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers, Icíar Bollaín and Isabel Coixet. Most recently she has co-edited with Mary Harrod the forthcoming Women Do Genre in Film and Television (Routledge, 2018).<p>
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