Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film - Kill Bill With Flying Daggers

Informationen zum Autor Joseph H. Kupfer is University Professor Philosophy at Iowa State University, USA, where he teaches ethics, aesthetics, and medical ethics. Recent articles deal with virtue, sainthood, and philosophy in film. His previous book was Meta-Narrative in the Movies: Tell Me a Story (2014). Zusammenfassung Aesthetic Violence and Women in Film is a highly readable and timely analysis of the intersection of two recent cinematic trends in martial arts films: aesthetic violence and warrior women. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements , Introduction, Chapter 1 Aestheticized violence, Chapter 2 Women warriors: the rise of female control, Chapter 3 Hyper-violence: the thrill of Kill Bill, Chapter 4 Surrealistic violence: no muscles, no splatter, Chapter 5 Surrealistic violence: women warriors unite, Index

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Kupfer, Joseph (Iowa State University Kupfer, Joseph H. Kupfer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780415785518
• ISBN: 978-0-415-78551-8
• No. of pages: 92
• Series: Routledge Focus on Feminism and Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Films, cinema, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Gender studies, gender groups, Violence in society, Gender studies: women, Film Theory & Criticism