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Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd ii 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd iiii 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema The Woman’s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror David Greven ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd iiiiii 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM representations of femininity in american genre cinema Copyright © David Greven, 2011. All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-0-230-11251-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greven, David. Representations of femininity in American genre cinema : the woman’s film, film noir, and modern horror / by David Greven. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Femininity in motion pictures. 2. Women in motion pictures. 3. Motion pictures—United States. I. Title. PN1995.9.W6G745 2011 791.43'6522—dc22 2010037447 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Scribe Inc. First edition: April 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd iivv 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM For my mother, Florence; my aunts, Chantal, Che-Che, Jannah, and Nan; and in loving memory of my grandmother, Marie Therese Moïse ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd vv 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd vvii 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Femininity and Film Genres 1 Part I: Freud and Classical Hollywood 9 1 Freud and the Death-Mother: Freud, the Woman’s Film, and Modern Horror 11 2 Transformations of the Woman’s Film: Or, Feminine Myths 29 Part II: Modern Horror 81 Preface to Part II: Modern Horror as the Concealed Woman’s Film 83 3 Medusa in the Mirror: Brian De Palma’s Carrie 91 4 Demeter and Persephone in Space: Transformation, Femininity, and Myth in the Alien Films 117 5 The Finalizing Woman: Horror, Femininity, and Queer Monsters 141 Coda: The Brave One 179 Notes 183 Index 205 ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd vviiii 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd vviiiiii 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM Acknowledgments Portions of the manuscript have been previously published in article form. The author gratefully acknowledges Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media for permission to reprint “Medusa in the Mirror: The Split World of Brian De Pal- ma’s Carrie,” originally published in the issue “Double Trouble: Special Issue on Split and Double Screens,” Volume 14, 2008; and Jump Cut: A Review of Con- temporary Media (no. 52, Summer 2010), for permission to reprint “Demeter and Persephone in Space: Transformation, Femininity, and Myth in the Alien Films.” The URL for the original Jump Cut essay is http://www.ejumpcut.org/ currentissue/GrevenAliens/index.html. I warmly thank the editors and anony- mous readers at both journals for their incisive guidance and encouragement. With equal warmth, I thank Mike Black and Black Summers Productions for kindly supplying me with a pre-DVD-release copy of Black’s 2009 doc- umentary Queer Icon: The Cult of Bette Davis. My thanks also to my friend Corinne Ondine Pache for her insights into the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. And, as ever and in all ways, to Alex Beecroft. ppaall--ggrreevveenn--0000ffmm..iinndddd iixx 33//1111//1111 1122::2255 PPMM

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