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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Main Author: Alicia Kozma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de León 2021-12-01
Series:Estudios Humanísticos. Filología
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Online Access:https://revpubli.unileon.es/index.php/EEHHFilologia/article/view/7039