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ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron / ed. by Kyle Barrett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADSPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 30 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474494434
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Biopics -- 1 I Shot Andy Warhol: Fame, Notoriety, and Mary Harron’s Anti-biopics -- 2 On the Other Side of the Icon: Making Images and Restaging Celebrity Spectacle in Anna Nicole -- Part II Feature Films and Production Contexts -- 3 Dream of the ’90s: Mary Harron in Indiewood -- 4 “I Like to Dissect Girls”: Mary Harron’s American Psycho as Gendered Metafiction -- 5 “And Then I Met Lucy”: Perfection, Same-sex Desire, and Social Control in Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries -- 6 Charismatic Breadwinner Killer: Gender Power Relations in Charlie Says -- Part III Television and Short Film Production -- 7 Death to Disposal: Echoes of American Psycho in “The Rainbow of Her Reasons” (Six Feet Under) -- 8 Sartorial Interventions: When Fashion and Film Collide -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Offers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron’s career and worksArgues that Harron’s work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitationsExplores her depiction of masculinity, patriarchy, feminism, and biopic genrePositions Harron’s filmmaking as a diverse, challenging body of work that is contextualized within contemporary industry practicesMary Harron’s diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first book to examine an overlooked filmmaker in relation to feminist cinema. It discusses the dialectical dynamics within her wide-ranging body of work, and it argues that Harron’s work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitations.Each chapter provides an in-depth study on Harron’s creative approaches to film and television production, with chapters offering close readings of each of her 5 narrative features, and her work in television and promotional film. With scholarly approaches from the fields of cinema, television, gender, fashion, death and celebrity studies, this is a long-awaited introduction to a groundbreaking figure in contemporary cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Biopics -- 1 I Shot Andy Warhol: Fame, Notoriety, and Mary Harron’s Anti-biopics -- 2 On the Other Side of the Icon: Making Images and Restaging Celebrity Spectacle in Anna Nicole -- Part II Feature Films and Production Contexts -- 3 Dream of the ’90s: Mary Harron in Indiewood -- 4 “I Like to Dissect Girls”: Mary Harron’s American Psycho as Gendered Metafiction -- 5 “And Then I Met Lucy”: Perfection, Same-sex Desire, and Social Control in Mary Harron’s The Moth Diaries -- 6 Charismatic Breadwinner Killer: Gender Power Relations in Charlie Says -- Part III Television and Short Film Production -- 7 Death to Disposal: Echoes of American Psycho in “The Rainbow of Her Reasons” (Six Feet Under) -- 8 Sartorial Interventions: When Fashion and Film Collide -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index

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Offers the first first book-length study of Mary Harron’s career and worksArgues that Harron’s work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitationsExplores her depiction of masculinity, patriarchy, feminism, and biopic genrePositions Harron’s filmmaking as a diverse, challenging body of work that is contextualized within contemporary industry practicesMary Harron’s diverse career includes cult films like I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, as well as a range of network and cable television episodes. This is the first book to examine an overlooked filmmaker in relation to feminist cinema. It discusses the dialectical dynamics within her wide-ranging body of work, and it argues that Harron’s work has a distinguishing approach to stylistic and aesthetic choices prompted by cultural contexts, controversial subject matter and production limitations.Each chapter provides an in-depth study on Harron’s creative approaches to film and television production, with chapters offering close readings of each of her 5 narrative features, and her work in television and promotional film. With scholarly approaches from the fields of cinema, television, gender, fashion, death and celebrity studies, this is a long-awaited introduction to a groundbreaking figure in contemporary cinema.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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