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The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, And Violence In Contemporary American Cinema (S U N Y Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) by Hilary Neroni is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, And Violence In Contemporary American Cinema (S U N Y Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) about?
In The Violent Woman, Hilary Neroni brings psychoanalytically informed film theory to bear on issues of femininity, violence, and narrative in contemporary American cinema. Examining such films as Thelma and Louise, Fargo, Natural Born Killers, and The Long Kiss Goodnight, Neroni explores why American audiences are so fascinated—even excited—by cinematic representations of violent women, and what these representations reveal about violence in our society and our cinema. Neroni argues that violen
Who reads The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, And Violence In Contemporary American Cinema (S U N Y Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hilary Neroni
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780791483640
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sports, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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