Cristelle Maury and David Roche (eds). Women Who Kill: Gender and Sexuality in Films and Series of the Post-feminist Era. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Contents below.
Contents
Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction Cristelle Maury and David Roche
Part One Neo-Femmes Fatales
1 The Femme Fatale of the 1990s Erotic Thriller: A Post-feminist Killer? Delphine Letort
2 The African Femme Fatale: Reappropriation of a Mythical Figure in White Men Are Cracking Up (Ngozi Onwurah, 1994) Emilie Herbert
3 Transwoman Who Kills: Hit & Miss (Sky Atlantic, 2012) Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot
4 Genre and Gender in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, 2014) Christophe Gelly
5 Textbook Femme Fatale, De-eroticized Neo-noir Heroine or Post-feminist Woman Who Kills? Genre Trouble in Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) Cristelle Maury
Part Two Action Babes
6 From Sarah Connor 2.0 to Sarah Connor 3.0: Women Who Kill in the Terminator Franchise Marianne Kac-Vergne
7 Girls against Women: Contrasting Female Violence in Contemporary Young Adult Dystopias Adrienne Boutang
8 Motherhood, Domesticity, and Nurture in the Postapocalyptic World: Negotiating Femininity in The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010–) Marta Suarez
9 An Audience Studies Approach to Tarantino’s Violent Heroines in Kill Bill (2003–04) and Death Proof (2007) Connor Winterton
10 Licensed to Kill? Arming and Disarming Female Killers in Action Film and Parody in Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015) and Spy (Paul Feig, 2015) Elizabeth Mullen
Part Three Monstrous Women
11 The Women Who Killed Too Many: Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, 2011) and Female Virality Julia Echeverría
12 “Always Take Care of Ganja”: Intersectional and Post-Feminist Contradictions in Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee, 2014) Hélène Charlery
13 Monstrous Feminists? Witches, Murder, and Avatars of (Post-)feminism in American Horror Story: Coven (FX, 2013–14) Mikaël Toulza
14 Furies and Female Empowerment: The Sword and the Pen in Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2012) and Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015) Carolina Abello Onofre and Christophe Chambost
15 Masculine Cultures of Technology and the Robotic Female Avenger in Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) Samantha Lindop
16 “You’re a Dangerous Girl”: Beauty and Violence in The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) Janice Loreck
17 Evidence of Cruel Optimism: Nick Broomfield’s Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) Rosemary White
Afterword: Women Who Kill after #MeToo David Roche and Cristelle Maury
Notes on Contributors
Index