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Heightened genre and women’s filmmaking in Hollywood : Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008) as teen gothic
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Harrod, Mary (2022) Heightened genre and women’s filmmaking in Hollywood : Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008) as teen gothic. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 6 (2). p. 20. doi:10.20897/femenc/12343
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.20897/femenc/12343
Abstract
In this video essay I explore intertextuality in Twilight as a marker of cinephilic female authorship. I aim to show that the film relies for much of its gripping effect on overtly re-engaging overdetermined structures of feeling established by earlier texts, in other words by invoking genre memory. Considering the key genres with which the film engages – notably Gothic horror and romance as well as the teen film – I demonstrate how Twilight repeatedly appeals to cultural knowledge at not only an intellectual but also an emotional level. I suggest that apostrophising the mind and the body simultaneously and in a way that cannot be parsed demands to be read as a feminist gesture, since the mode of address adopted by what I call heightened genre films such as this one forecloses the viability of Cartesian dualistic understandings of human experience on which patriarchal exclusions of women and other groups have often rested.
Item Type: | Journal Item | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States, Women in the motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles, Motion pictures -- Social aspects, Meyer, Stephenie, 1973- -- Twilight , Hardwicke, Catherine -- History and Criticism | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics | ||||
Publisher: | Lectito Journals | ||||
ISSN: | 2542-4920 | ||||
Official Date: | 12 September 2022 | ||||
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Volume: | 6 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Page Range: | p. 20 | ||||
DOI: | 10.20897/femenc/12343 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Description: | Video essay |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 October 2022 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 October 2022 |
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