Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment

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Laleen Jayamanne
Indiana University Press, 1996 - Performing Arts - 296 pages

These essays break with many of the givens of traditional feminist film theory and examine the work of directors outside the canon, including Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Martin Scorsese. Kiss Me Deadly offers a refreshing emphasis on new theoretical perspectives as well as new interpretations of old ones.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Patricia Mellencamp
18
CHAPTER 2
77
CHAPTER 3
91
CHAPTER 4
126
Rainer Werner Fassbinders The Marriage
147
CHAPTER 6
180
CHAPTER 7
221
CHAPTER 8
252
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LALEEN JAYAMANNE is Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney. She is also a filmmaker whose films include A Song of Ceylon and Rehearsing. Her articles have appeared in Screen, Discourse, and The Australian Journal of Screen Theory.

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