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Cinema of obsession, erotic fixation and love gone wrong in the movies
Linda Ruth Williams (The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema) describes him this way: "Douglas' characters are ruined by, and predicated upon, lack in its various forms: incompetence, ignorance, impotence — symbolic forms of ...
by Dominique Mainon, James Ursini
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A Little Solitaire, John Frankenheimer and American Film
LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS is professor of film in the English Department at the University of Southampton, UK. She is author and editor of four books, including The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema (2005) and Contemporary American ...
by Murray Pomerance, R. Barton Palmer
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The contemporary television series
most recently The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and is co-editor, with Michael Hammond, of Contemporary American Cinema (forthcoming). She is a regular contributor to Sight and Sound magazine, ...
by Michael Hammond, Lucy Mazdon
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Pretty People, Movie Stars of the 1990s
LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS is a professor of film in the English Department at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. She is the author of The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema and numerous articles on feminism, sexuality, ...
by Anna Everett
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More than night, film noir in its contexts
In addition to women like Tweed and Whirry, who are reliable and effective thespians, erotic thrillers feature such ... Most of the profits in contemporary cinema are generated in video stores, which are melting pots of American film ...
by James Naremore
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Hollywood Heroines, Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film
86 Williams: The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, pp. 149-163. 87 See Tasker: Working Girls, pp. 100-102. 88 See Christine Gledhill's discussion of Jagged Edge and its construction of distinct moral opposites through its ...
by Helen Hanson
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American Film Cycles, Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, & Defining Subcultures
With the exception of a few pages in James Naremore's More than Night and Aaron Barlow's The DVD Revolution: Movies, Culture, and Technology, and one chapter in Linda Ruth Williams's The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, ...
by Amanda Ann Klein
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Screening Generation X, The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema
While her 1940s counterpart was symptomatic of a diseased decade, the modern seductress of the 1980s and 1 990s can ... bitch in youth cinema reconceptualizes the threatening female popularized in film noir and the erotic thriller.
by Christina Lee
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Movies in American History, An Encyclopedia
2, 3rd ed. Hillstrom, Laurie Collier, ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. Weinraub, Bernard. “Friedkin Tries Again for the A-List.” New York Times, April 2, 2000: AR29. Williams, Linda Ruth. The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema.
by Philip C. DiMare
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The body's perilous pleasures, dangerous desires and contemporary culture
It has existed throughout the history of Hollywood film either as the absent yet deadly potential of an often subtextual ... context I will briefly examine the place of lesbianism within the female buddy movie and the erotic thriller.
by Michele Aaron
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