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

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  • Alicia Kozma Director of Indiana University Cinema

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18002/ehf.v0i43.7039

Parole chiave:

women in horror, abject, extreme cinema = mujeres en el horror, abyecto, cine extremo

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n/a

Abstract

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 this phenomenon through four films from New French Extremism’s inaugural cycle.

 

El Nuevo Extremismo Francés combina el existencialismo con el shock, la hiperviolencia y las transgresiones de los cuerpos de las mujeres. En este artículo argumento que dicho imaginario se entiende mejor como una representación de la violencia que permite acceder al conocimiento mediante la representación de la monstruosidad y el abyecto de la mujer. Examino este fenómeno a través de cuatro películas de la primera ola de dicho movimiento.

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Biografia autore

Alicia Kozma, Director of Indiana University Cinema

Dr. Alicia Kozma combines a practical focus on media labor with critical inquiry to understand how media industries work, who works in them, and how the labor of media workers is constructed. Dr. Kozma has an additional focus on the construction of women's bodies in film, and gender and horror. She is the co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Doris Wishman (Edinburgh UP 2021), the author of The Filmmaking of Stephanie Rothman: Radical Acts in Filmmaking (Mississippi UP 2022), and her most recent article, “Gendered Labor in the Neo-Art House," was published in Media Industries. Kozma is the Director of Indiana University Cinema and holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Media Studies from the Institute of Communication Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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2021-12-20

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Kozma, A. (2021). 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. Estudios Humanísticos. Filología, (43), 39–54. https://doi.org/10.18002/ehf.v0i43.7039

Fascicolo

N. 43 (2021): Aproximaciones a lo monstruoso y lo femenino: de lo "humano" a lo "posthumano"

Sezione

Monográfico 2021: Aproximaciones a lo monstruoso y lo femenino: de lo “humano” a lo posthumano”

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