List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Impossible Liaisons? Genre and Feminist Film Criticism; 1: Subversive Auteur, Subversive Genre; 2: Repeat in order to Remake. Diablo Cody and Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body; 3: Hollywood Transvestite. Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker; 4: Genre in the Margins. Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff; 5: Genre on the Surface. Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette; 6: What a Woman Wants? Nancy Meyers’s The Intern; Afterword: Desperately Seeking Wonder Women; Bibliography; Index