An edition of Representations of murderous women in literature, theatre, film, and television
(2010)
Representations of murderous women in literature, theatre, film, and television
examining the patriarchal presuppositions behind the treatment of murderesses in fiction and reality
by Juli L. Parker
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Representations of murderous women in literature, theatre, film, and television: examining the patriarchal presuppositions behind the treatment of murderesses in fiction and reality
2010, The Edwin Mellen Press, Edwin Mellen Press
in English
0773414584 9780773414587
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Table of Contents
Introduction
On the page. A "horrible lust for living blood" : supernatural female murderers in nineteenth-century literature
A comparative reading of Mona Caird's The wing of Azrael (1889) and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1892)
She hid it well : female serial killers in American hard-boiled detective fiction
Speculative biographies : representing the lives of historical murdering women
The murdering woman in a Chinese/Taiwanese cultural context
The bodies of Lizzie Borden
On the screen. Increasingly monstrous representation of real female killers in American cinema : I want to live! (Robert Wise, 1958) and Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003)
"Ki-ki-ki Ma-ma-ma" : maternal virtue and Mrs. Voorhees
Women on death row : documentary film and the cultural politics of identity
Lethal ladies : the stars of John Waters' Female trouble and Serial mom
The birth of the female youth rampage shooter
Women who kill : Law & order, Dexter & The wire
On the stage. Killing a husband : Alice Arden and her accomplices on the early modern stage
"There's so much I want to tell her" : Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and the transference of femininity
Sheila's deposition, 1997
Another day in court : women playwrights
The murdering mother in Marina Carr's plays.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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