1st Edition
The Nasty Woman and The Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema
By Agnieszka Piotrowska
Copyright 2019
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema puts forward the theoretical notion of the ‘nasty woman’ as a means of examining female protagonists in contemporary culture and cinema, particularly films directed by women. The phrase is taken from an insult thrown at Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Presidential election debates and reclaimed by the feminists worldwide. The... Read more
Introduction: Nasty Women and Neo Femme Fatales Chapter 1. Zero Dark Thirty – ‘War Autism’ or a Lacanian Ethical Act? Chapter 2. The killjoy and the nasty woman in Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train Chapter 3: A new documentary ethics: trauma and reparation in Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell Chapter 4: The non- femme fatale in Red Road Conclusion: Where else will the Nasty Woman go – final nomadic remarks
Biography
Agnieszka Piotrowska is a filmmaker and a theorist. She is best known for her award-winning cult documentary Married to the Eiffel Tower, screened globally in 60 countries. She has written extensively on psychoanalysis, gender and post-colonial culture, setting up creative collaborations in Zimbabwe. She is the author of Psychoanalysis and Ethics in Documentary Film (2014) and Black and White: Cinema, politics and the arts in Zimbabwe (2017). She is a Reader in Film Practice and Theory at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Gdansk, Poland.
