{"product_id":"from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream-women-in-film-and-television-9781350331655","title":"From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and Television","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied representations of women in films such as \u003ci\u003eJackie Brown\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eMarie Antoinette\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eIt's a Free World... \u003c\/i\u003e(2007) and \u003ci\u003eWonder Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). They particularly look into the overlooked gendered aspects of voice-overs and the adverse tropes used to represent maternity in television series as well as the complex motif of the vagina dentata in contemporary film and television. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe chapters analyze independent, art-house, Hollywood and TV productions often in transnational contexts, shedding light on how definitions of femininity are culturally specific yet cross national, class and racial lines. The contributors include renowned scholars such as Yvonne Tasker, Celestino Deleyto, David Roche and Nicole Cloarec, as well as emerging yet well-published film scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarianne Kac-Vergne\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of American Studies at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France. Her research interests are masculinity, femininity, Hollywood genres and science fiction. She is author of \u003ci\u003eMasculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e (I. B. Tauris, 2017). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Assouly\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of American Studies at Université d'Artois, France. Her research themes are pictorial intertextuality, intermediality and cultural transfers in American cinema, specifically the films of the Coen brothers and Wes Anderson. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e L'Amérique \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003edes frères Coen\u003c\/i\u003e (2015).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562971566354,"sku":"9781350331655","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7eeb8f6d-a96b-4942-9aea-e8333bbbb76f.jpg?v=1731865213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream-women-in-film-and-television-9781350331655","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}