[csaa-forum] Book Launch: New titles in Film Studies - Violent Women and Queer Girls

[Kirsten Stevens]

*Dual Book Launch – Loop Bar, Melbourne Friday 22 July*



You are warmly invited to the joint launch of two new exciting film studies
titles from Palgrave Macmillan – *Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema
*& *Queer
Girls, Temporality and Screen Media *



Monash's School of Media, Film and Journalism presents the launch of these
spectacular new books by Janice Loreck and Whitney Monaghan, assistant
lecturers in Film & Screen Studies at Monash University.

Please join us on Friday July 22 when Associate Professor Belinda Smaill
will launch Janice Loreck's *Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema* and
Associate Professor Therese Davis will launch Whitney Monaghan's *Queer
Girls, Temporality & Screen Media: Not 'just a phase'*.



*Where:* Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place Melbourne

*When:* 6:30pm, Friday July 22 2016

About the books:

*Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema* explores the exciting challenge
posed by women who kill through six films released over the last 20 years:
Antichrist (Lars von Trier, 2009), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001),
Baise-moi (Coralie Thinh Thi and Virginie Despentes, 2000), Heavenly
Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994), Monster (Patty Jenkins, 2003) and The
Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008). Exploring how these films play with cultural
ideas of 'typical' feminine behaviour and the challenges presented to these
by homicidal women, this daring work takes up a unique focus on the
depiction of violent women in contemporary art and critically-distinguished
films. Exploring the appeal that violent women hold for spectators within
this viewing context, Loreck opens up the discussion of how cinema responds
to the cultural construction of the violent woman as a conundrum and enigma.

Janice Loreck is a teaching associate and researcher in the School of
Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University and contributor to The
Conversation.


http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137525079#otherversion=9781349707072


*Queer Girls, Temporalty and Screen Media* offers a key intervention into
the growing scholarship and increasing visibility of queer characters in
films and television series around the globe. Taking up the queer girl as a
represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video, this
book analyses the terms of the queer girl’s newfound visibility. Monaghan’s
clear critical perspective argues for a temporal logic that underpins many
representations of queer girlhood. Examining an archive of screen texts
that includes teen television series, teenpics, art-house, queer and
independent cinemas as well as new forms of digital video, she expands
current discourse on both queer representation and girls’ studies by
looking at sexuality through themes of temporality. The first full-length
study of its kind, this book draws on concepts of boredom, nostalgia and
transience to offer a new perspective on queer representation in
contemporary screen media.

Whitney Monaghan is a teaching associate in Film & Screen Studies at Monash
University and editor and founder of Peephole Journal, an experimental
publication featuring articles by emerging and established film critics.


http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137555977
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