New Blood in Contemporary Cinema - Prof. dr. Patricia Pisters

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadžihalilovic and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put ‘a poetics of horrorÂ’ to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics,... Zobrazit více