Mapping the monstrous: women’s horrific bodies in French extreme film = Cartografiando lo monstruoso: los terroríficos cuerpos de las mujeres en el nuevo extremismo francés
New French extreme cinema combines existentialism with shock, hyper violence, and transgressions of women’s bodies. I contend such imagery is best understood as a representation of violence that enables enlightenment in and through the representation of women’s monstrosity and abjection. I examine...
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Language: | English |
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Universidad de León
2021-12-01
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Series: | Estudios Humanísticos. Filología |
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Online Access: | https://revpubli.unileon.es/index.php/EEHHFilologia/article/view/7039 |