The Silence of the Lambs
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2019
96 pages
978-1-83902-057-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this study Yvonne Tasker explores the way the film weaves together gothic, horror and thriller conventions to generate both a distinctive variation on the cinematic portrayal of insanity and crime, and a fascinating intervention in the sexual politics of genre.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-83902-057-5 (9781839020575)
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Yvonne Tasker
The Silence of the Lambs
Book
02/2002
BFI Publishing
€16.04
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Person
Yvonne Tasker is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (1998) and Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema (1983).
