When the Woman Directs (a Horror Film)

Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna

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“…The latter was, as many press articles expressed it, 'lynched' for her film Boxing Helena (1993), due to the scenes involving its female protagonist's mutilation and torture. While her subsequent projects, like Surveillance (2008) and Chained (2012), won her critical recognition -she was the first woman filmmaker to win the Best Director Award at the New York City Horror Festival -at the same time, both attracted accusations of nepotism (it was claimed that she became famous thanks to her father, David Lynch) and even more sexist attacks rooted in the violence represented in her films (see Paszkiewicz 2018).…”

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Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers

Paszkiewicz¹

2018

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Genre, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers examines the significance of women’s contribution to genre cinema by highlighting the work of US filmmakers within and outside Hollywood – Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, Nancy Meyers, Karyn Kusama and Kelly Reichardt, among others. Exploring genres as diverse as horror, the war movie, the Western, the costume biopic and the romantic comedy, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz interrogates questions of ‘genre’ authorship; the blurring of the borders between commercial and independent cinema and gendered discourses of (de)authorisation that operate within each sphere; ‘male’–‘female’ genre divisions; and the issue of authorial subversion in film and popular culture in a wider sense. With its focus on close analysis of the films themselves and the cultural and ideological meanings involved in the reception of genre texts authored by women, this book expands critical debates around women’s cinema and offers new perspectives on how contemporary filmmakers explore the aesthetic and imaginative power of genre.

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