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Gothic Heroines on Screen: Representation, Interpretation, and Feminist Inquiry book cover

1st Edition

Gothic Heroines on Screen Representation, Interpretation, and Feminist Inquiry

Edited By Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Frances A. Kamm Copyright 2019
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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Gothic Heroines on Screen explores the translation of the literary Gothic heroine on screen, the potential consequences of these adaptations, and contemporary interpretations of the form. Each chapter illuminates the significance of this moving image mediation, relating its screen topics to their various historical, social, and geographical moments of production, while maintaining a focus on... Read more

Introduction

Frances A. Kamm and Tamar Jeffers McDonald

　

Part I: Bluebeard’s Ghost

  1. Bluebeard’s Women Fight Back: the Gothic heroine in contemporary film and Heidi Lee Douglas’s Little Lamb (2014)

    2. Gisèle Baxter

  2. Bluebeard in the Cities: The Use of an Urban Setting in Two 21st Century Films

    3. Lawrence Jackson

  3. Blueprints from Bluebeard: Charting the Gothic in contemporary film

    4. Tamar Jeffers McDonald

    　

    Part II: Returning to Manderley

  4. Impossible Spaces: Gothic Special Effects and Feminine Subjectivity

    5. Christina G. Petersen

  5. The Certified Accountant Gothic Heroine: Paranoia and The Second Woman (1951)

    6. Guy Barefoot

  6. "But it’s happening to you, Eleanor": The Haunting as a Buildingsroman

    7.

    Johanna Wagner

    　

    Part III: The Gothic and Genre Forms

  7. The Gothic in Space: Genre, Motherhood and Aliens (1986)

    8. Frances A. Kamm

  8. The Gothic heroine out West: A Town Called Bastard (1971)

    9. Lee Broughton

  9. Laughing at Periods: Gothic Parody in Julia Davis’ Hunderby

    10.

    Sarah McLellan

  10. There’s a secret behind the door. And that secret is me. The Gothic Reimagining of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.

    11.

    Katerina Flint Nicol

    　

    Part IV: National Cinema and the Gothic

  11. East German Gothic: Kurt Maetzig’s The Rabbit Is Me (1965)

    12. Dana Weber

  12. ‘I See, I See…’: Goodnight Mommy as Austrian Gothic

    13. Lies Lanckman

  13. The Babadook, maternal gothic and the ‘woman’s horror film’

Paula Quigley

Biography

Tamar Jeffers McDonald is Reader in Film at the University of Kent and co-organiser of the Gothic Feminism research group. She has published on issues of film genre, film costume, stardom, performance, and movie magazines.

Frances A. Kamm is an early career researcher and Associate Lecturer at the University of Kent, and co-organiser of the Gothic Feminism research project. She was awarded her PhD in Film Studies with the thesis entitled ‘The Technological Uncanny and the Representation of the Body in Early and Digital Cinema’.

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