Gothic heroines on screen : representation, interpretation and feminist enquiry

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Explores the translation of the literary Gothic heroine on screen, the potential consequences of these adaptations, and contemporary interpretations of the form. Each chapter illuminates the significance of this moving image mediation, relating its screen topics to their various historical, social, and geographical moments of production, while maintaining a focus on the key figure of the investigating woman.

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Af indholdet: S. 13-26: Bluebeard's women fight back: the gothic heroine in contemporary film and heidi Lee Douglas' Little Lamb / Gisèle M. Baxter. - S. 27-40: Bluebeard in the cities: the use of urban setting in two 21st-century films [In the cut+Red road] / Lawrence Jackson. - S. 41-54: Blueprints from Bluebeard: charting the gothic in contemporary film / Tamar Jeffers McDonald. - S. 57-69: Impossible spaces: gothic special effects and feminine subjectivity [Rebecca] / Christina G. Petersen. - S. 70-82: The certified accountant gothic heroine: paranoia and The second woman / Guy Barefoot. - S. 83-96: But it's happening to you, Eleanor: The haunting as a buildingsroman / Johanna M. Wagner. - S. 99-114: The gothic in space: genre, motherhood, and Aliens / Frances A. Kamm. - S. 115-127: The gothic heroine out West: A town calle Bastard / Lee Broughton. - S. 128-140: Laughing at periods: gothic parody in Julia Davis' Hunderby / Sarah McClellan. - S. 141-154: There's a secret behind the door. And that secret is me: the gothic reimagining of Agatha Christie's And then there were none / Katerina Flint-Nicol. - S. 157-170: East German gothic: Kurt Maetzig's The rabbit is me / A. Dana Weber. - S. 171-183: I see ... I see...: Goodnight mommy as Austrian gothic / Lies Lankman. - S. 184-198: The badadook, maternal gothic, and the woman's horror film.