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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 Hadžihalilović and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put 'a poetics of horror' 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, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.
Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Virginia's Unruly Daughters and Carrie's Crimson Sisters
1. Violence and Female Agency - Murderess, Her Body, Her Mind2. Growing Pains - Breasts, Blood and Fangs 3. Longing and Lust, 'Red Light' on a 'Dark Continent'4. Growing Bellies, Failing Mothers, Scary Off-spring5. Political Gutting, Crushed Life and Poetic Justice
Conclusion: Bloody Red - Poetics, Patterns, PoliticsNotesIllustrationsFilmography of Women Directors and the Poetics of HorrorBibliographyIndex
