Killing women: the visual culture of gender and violence

History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday / Sylvie Frigon -- Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre /...

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Contributors: Burfoot, Annette (Other) ; Lord, Susan 1959- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ontario Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press 2006
In: Cultural studies series (6)
Year: 2006
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
Women murderers
Violence in women
Women > Violence against
Women murderers in motion pictures
Violence in motion pictures
Women in mass media
Violence in mass media
Motion Pictures > Social aspects
Mass Media > Social aspects
Filmografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Mörderin > Motiv > Massenmedien
Mörderin > Motiv
Massenmedien > Film > Frau > Gewalt
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Summary:History, memory, and mediations of murder. Mapping scripts and narratives of women who kill their husbands in Canada, 1866-1954: inscribing the everyday / Sylvie Frigon -- Neither forgotten nor fully remembered: tracing an ambivalent public memory on the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Massacre / Sharon Rosenberg -- Missing: on the politics of re/presentation / Zoey (c)œlouard Michele -- Killing the killers: women on death row in the United States / Kathleen O'Shea -- "Dealing with the devil": Karla Homolka and the absence of feminist criticism / Belinda Morrissey. Techniques and technologies of representing violence. Pearls and gore: the spectacle of woman in life and death / Annette Burfoot -- "I am awake in the place where women die": violent death in the art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer / Lisa Coulthard -- Women and murder in the televirtuality film / Jack Boozer -- "I'm in there! I'm one of the women in that picture" / Margot Leigh Butler -- Killing time: the violent imaginary of feminist media / Susan Lord. National trouble: gendered violence. Dario Argento's The bird with the crystal plumage: caging women's rage / Frank Burke -- How positively levitating! Chinese heroines of Kung fu and Wuxia pian / Suzie S.F. Young -- The madwomen in our movies: female psycho-killers in American horror cinema / Steven Jay Schneider -- Reverence, rape--and then revenge: popular Hindi cinema's "women's film" / Jyotika Virdi -- In the name of the nation: images of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters / Dorit Naaman
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-315) and index
Physical Description:XXII, 328 S., Ill.
ISBN:0-88920-497-7
978-0-88920-497-3