Screening Genders: The American Science Fiction Film

by Krin Gabbard

Book Overview

Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between."

The book begins with a general introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813543401
• ISBN13: 9780813543406
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher