Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television
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This collection examines the meaning, construction and deconstruction of the murdering woman. These essays suggest that the ways in which gender, race, class and sexuality play into representations of women murderers is key to understanding the patriarchal underpinnings of our judicial system as they apply to women criminals.
العنوان |
Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television : Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality |
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عنوان بديل |
Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television |
الطبعة |
1st ed. |
الناشر |
Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press |
تاريخ الإصدار |
2010 |
ملاحظات |
Description based upon print version of record. English |
رقم الرف |
REPRESENTATIONS OF MURDEROUS WOMEN IN LITERATURE,THEATRE, FILM, AND TELEVISION: Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Section One: On the Page Chapter One: A ""horrible lust for living blood"": Supernatural Female Murderers in Nineteenth-Century Literature Chapter Two: Murder as an Act of Resistance against Female Sacrifice? A Comparative Reading of Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D 'Urbervilles (1891) Chapter Three: She Hid it Well: Female Serial Killers in American Hard-Boiled Detective FictionChapter Four: Speculative Biographies: Representing the Lives of Historical Murdering Women Chapter Five: The Murdering Woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese Cultural Context: Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife Chapter Six: The Bodies of Lizzie Borden Section Two: On the Screen Chapter Seven: Real-life Female Killers in American Cinema: I Want To Live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster(Patty Jenkins, 2003). Chapter Eight: ""Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma"":Mrs. Voorhees' Queer Maternal Virtue Chapter Nine: Women on Death Row: Documentary Film and the Cultural Politics of IdentityChapter Ten: Lethal Ladies: The Stars of John Waters' Female Trouble and Serial Mom Chapter Eleven: The Birth of the Female Youth Rampage Shooter Chapter Twelve: Women Who Kill: Law and Order, Dexter, and The Wire Section Three: On the Stage Chapter Thirteen: Alice Arden and Her Accomplices: Husband-Murder in Early Modern Drama Chapter Fourteen: ""There's so much I want to tell her"": Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and the Transference of Femininity Chapter Fifteen: Sheila's Deposition, 1997 Chapter Sixteen: Another Day in Court: Women Playwrights Staging True StoriesChapter Seventeen: The Murdering Mother in Marina Carr's Plays Works Cited |
الشكل |
1 online resource (444 p.) |
اللغة |
الانكليزية |
رقم النظام |
997010720709605171 |
MARC RECORDS
وسوم
- Murder in literature.
- Murder in motion pictures.
- Women murderers in literature.
- Women murderers in motion pictures.
- Women murderers.
- Murder in literature
- Murder in motion pictures
- Women murderers in literature
- Women murderers in motion pictures
- Women murderers
- Languages & Literatures
- Literature - General
- Female homicide offenders
- Murderesses
- Women homicide offenders
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