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women directors
Product details
- ISBN 9781474466950
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 Hadžihalilović 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.
Patricia Pisters is professor of film and media culture at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam. Her books include New Blood in Contemporary Cinema: Women Directors and the Poetics of Horror 2020), the award winning book Filming for the Future: The Work of Louis van Gasteren (2016) and The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (2012). Her articles, video lectures and av-essays can be found at www.patriciapisters.com
