Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film. and Television: Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of ... of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality

Name: Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film. and Television: Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of ... of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality
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By Parker, Juli L.

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Parker, Juli L. Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television. Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality. Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. XVIII, 424 pages. Original Hardcover. Some staining to the rear board. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A collection that examines the meaning, construction and deconstruction of the murdering woman. It suggests 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. Includes the following chapters: I. A horrible lust for living blood - Supernatural Female Murderers in Nineteenth-Century Literature / II. A comparative Reading of Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1892) / How are the Murderesses constructed ? Who makes the Victims ? / III. She hid it well: Female Serial Killers in American Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction / The Science of Crimonology / The Literary Representations of the Femme Fatale / IV. Speculative Biographies - Representing the Lives of Historical Murdering Women - Speculative Biography - Neither Fiends nor Angels - Agnes Magnúsdóttir - Grace Marks - Edith Thompson - Speculative Biographies of Murdering Women/ V. The Murdering Woman in a Chinese / Taiwanese Cultural Context / VI. The Bodies of Lizzie Borden - Female Friendships and Contagious Desires - Lizzie and the Ravenous Body / VII. Increasingly Monstrous Representation of Real Female Killers in American Cinema: I want to Live ! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003) - Oscar Winning Transformations - Monster Re-Presents a Sensationalist Media's Dream - Wuornos the Prostitute as Masculine-Aspected Monster - A Film in Denial - Monster rejects the Feminist and A..

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Languages:: Published: English , Original: English
Number of Pages:: 424
Publisher:: Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Publication Date:: 2010-11-19
Weight:: 771 g

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