Transgressing Women focuses on the literary and cinematic representation of female characters in contemporary noir thrillers. The book argues that as the genre has grown, expanded and been subverted since its initial conception, along with the changing definition of gender, the …
Focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers. It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory repoliticize culture and society and affirm the theoretical and political impact of cinematic knowledge.…
Introduction : studying blacks and horror films. -- The birth of the black boogeyman: pre-1930s. -- Jungle fever: a horror romance: 1930s. -- Horrifying goons and minstrel coons: 1940s. -- Black invisibility, white science, and a night with Ben: 1950s-1960s. -- Scream, whitey, s…
