Gothic heroines on screen : representation, interpretation, and feminist enquiry /: representation, interpretation, and feminist enquiry. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald and Frances A. Kamm.
• Editors: McDonald, Tamar Jeffers; Kamm, Frances (Frances Alice)
• Contents: Bluebeard's women fight back : the Gothic heroine in contemporary film and Heidi Lee Douglas' Little lamb (2014) / Gisèle M. Baxter -- Bluebeard in the cities : the use of an urban setting in two 21st-century films / Lawrence Jackson -- Blueprints from Bluebeard : charting the Gothic in contemporary film / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- Impossible spaces : Gothic special effects and feminine subjectivity / Christina G. Petersen -- The certified accountant Gothic heroine : paranoia and The second woman / Guy Barefoot -- "But it's happening to you, Eleanor" : The haunting as a 'Buildingsroman' / Johanna M. Wagner -- The Gothic in space : genre, motherhood and Aliens (1986) -- Frances A. Kamm -- The Gothic heroine out West : A town called Bastard (1971) / Lee Broughton -- Laughing at periods : Gothic parody in Julia Davis' Hunderby / Sarah McLellan -- 'There's a secret behind the door. And that secret is me' : the Gothic reimagining of Agatha Christie's And then there were none / Katerina Flint-Nicol -- East German Gothic : Kurt Maetzig's The rabbit is me (1965) / A. Dana Weber -- "I see, I see..." : Goodnight mommy (2014) as Austrian Gothic / Lies Lanckman -- The Babadook (2014), maternal Gothic and the "woman's horror film" / Paula Quigley.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43/6522; Heroines in motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- Film adaptations; Horror films -- History and criticism; Women motion picture producers and directors; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies; Heroines in motion pictures; Horror films; Women in motion pictures; Women motion picture producers and directors; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781315200545; 1315200546; 9781351779371; 1351779370; 9781351779388; 1351779389; 9781351779364; 1351779362
• Related ISBNs: 9781138710993; 1138710997; 9781138711006; 1138711004
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2019).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.