The Nasty Woman and the Neo Femme Fatale in Contemporary Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780367492991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 122 str.

Agnieszka Piotrowska

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.