This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the monstrous feminine has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gende…
This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities. Particularly concerned with the aesthetic and ideolo…
This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities
Amanda Howell offers a new perspective on the contemporary pop score as the means by which masculinities not seen-or heard-before become a part of post-World War II American cinema. Popular Film Music and Masculinity in Action addresses itself to an eclectic mix of film, from El…
This book is a study of how popular music has participated in the cinematic construction of gender, with a special focus on the action genre and films that share action cinema's interest in spectacularly violent masculinities. Particularly concerned with the aesthetic and ideolo…
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon
by Leonard, Kendra Preston, Bach, Jacqueline, Clendinning, Elizabeth A., Halfyard, Steve, Howell, Amanda, Hung, Eric, Jencson, Linda, Masson, Cynthea, Middents, Jeffrey, Mills, Matthew, Pelkey, Stanley C., II, Wiley, Christopher
This contributed volume explores the significant role that music plays in the works of Joss Whedon, investigating the uses and meaning of music and sound in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Serenity, and the Internet musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.