Amanda DiGioia's Books

This book examines childbirth and parenting in horror texts. By analysing new texts, and re-analysing commonly used texts with new feminist methodology, this study provides a unique contribution to the fields of gender and horror studies.

This multi-disciplinary book explores the textual analysis of heavy metal lyrics written in languages other than English including Japanese, Yiddish, Latin, Russian, Hungarian, Austrian German, and Norwegian. Topics covered include national and minority identity, politics, wordplay, parody, local/global, intertextuality, and adaptation.

This book, written from a feminist perspective, uses the focus of duelling to discuss the nature of masculinity in Russia. It traces the development of duelling and masculinity historically from the time of Peter the Great onwards, considers how duelling and masculinity have been represented in both literature and film and assesses the high emphasis given in Soviet times to gender equality, arguing that this was a failed experiment that ran counter to Russian tradition. It examines how duelling continues to be a feature of life in contemporary Russia and relates the situation in Russia to wider scholarship on the nature of masculinity more generally. Overall, the book contends that Russia’s valuing of a strong, militaristic form of masculinity is a major problem.

Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner is a comparative, gendered analysis study of Ridley Scott’s contributions to the genre of science fiction and horror cinema, showcasing how patriarchal and gendered expectations regarding women, usually associated with the past, still run rampant.

Once hailed as a radical breakthrough in documentary and ethnographic filmmaking, observational cinema has been criticized for a supposedly detached camera that objectifies and dehumanizes the subjects of its gaze. The author's provide a critical historyand in-depth appraisal of this movement.

Book's by Amanda DiGioia

Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts

Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts

Multilingual Metal Music

Multilingual Metal Music

Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis

Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis

Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner

Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner

Observational Cinema

Observational Cinema

Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis

Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis

Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts

Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts

Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner

Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner

Multilingual Metal Music

Multilingual Metal Music

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email