By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary hollywood cinema, postfeminism and contemporary hollywood cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production. Class, postfeminism, and the molly ringwaldjohn hughes films anthony c. Its a documentary about the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, with. Postfeminism and contemporary hollywood cinema book summary. Postfeminism and contemporary hollywood cinema joel gwynne and nadine muller. European cinema eyeline matching excess expressionism see german expressionism f fade fantasyfantasy films female spectator see spectator feminist film theory fetishism see film noir, voyeurismfetishism film industry see hollywood, studio system film noir film theory see theory flashback foregrounding formcontent framing free british cinema. The second focus of this analytic approach is on the relational aspect of representation. Pdf the modernized, empowered female figure in cinematic. Virginity, postfeminism and representation in in easy a postfeminism and contemporary hollywood cinema add to my bookmarks export citation type. Publication postfeminism and contemporary hollywood cinema.
Bleach cinema journal, 49, number 3, spring 2010, pp. Postfeminism and contemporary hollywood cinema springerlink. Contemporary hollywood cinema is rife with representations of fatherhood since paternalized protagonists have become an increasingly and often overwhelmingly omnipresent feature of popular film in. Postfeminism and contemporary hollywood cinema aims to extend current scholarship on postfeminist media culture and postfeminism as a cultural condition by exploring popular cultures engagement with feminism through a range of cinematic genres. Female cosmopolitan subjects in contemporary american. What are the discursive implications for the contemporary, empowered, and sadistic female figure of the u. We need more of that both in hollywood and in life. Pdf american postfeminist cinema download read online. The chapters in the collection primarily examine post millennial films, some as recent as 2011. The films presented in the analysis include bound, the last seduction, and basic instinct where.
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