[ 14 ] Reverence, Rape—and then Revenge: Popular Hindi Cinema’s “Women’s Film”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. [ contents ] v
3. [ illustrations ] vii
4. [ acknowledgements ] ix
5. [ introduction ] xi
6. History, Memory, and Mediations of Murder
7. Mapping Scripts and Narratives of Women Who Kill Their Husbands in Canada, 1866–1954: Inscribing the Everyday 3
8. Neither Forgotten nor Fully Remembered: Tracing an Ambivalent Public Memory on the Tenth Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre 21
9. Missing: On the Politics of Re/Presentation 47
10. Killing the Killers:Women on Death Row in the United States 67
11. “Dealing with the Devil”: Karla Homolka and the Absence of Feminist Criticism 83
12. Techniques and Technologies of Representing Violence
13. Pearls and Gore: The Spectacle of Woman in Life and Death 107
14. “I Am Awake in the Place Where Women Die”: Violent Death in the Art of Abigail Lane and Jenny Holzer 123
15. Women and Murder in the Televirtuality Film 139
16. “I’m in There! I’m One of the Women in That Picture!” 155
17. Killing Time: The Violent Imaginary of Feminist Media 177
18. National Trouble: Gendered Violence
19. Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage: Caging Women’s Rage 197
20. How Positively Levitating! Chinese Heroines of Kung Fu and Wuxia Pian 219
21. The Madwomen in Our Movies: Female Psycho-Killers in American Horror Cinema 237
22. Reverence, Rape—and then Revenge: Popular Hindi Cinema’s “Women’s Film” 251
23. In the Name of the Nation: Images of Palestinian and Israeli Women Fighters 273
24. [ sources ] 293
25. [ biographical notes ] 317
26. [ index ] 321
27. Books in the Cultural Studies Series 329