Nine Lives: A History of Cat Women, Subversive Femininity, and Transgressive Archetypes in Film
Description:
The intention of this thesis is to identify and analyze the cat woman archetype as a contemporary extension of the transgressive witch archetype, which rampantly appears over the course of cinema history, working as a signifier of a patriarchal society's fear of autonomous and subversive women. The character of Catwoman is the ultimate representation for this archetype on grounds of her visibility, longevity, and ability to return again and again. More importantly, Catwoman and her sisterhood o…
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Date:
August 2020
Creator:
Barnett, Katrina
Partner:
UNT Libraries