Dominique Mainon
Personal Information
Description
Dominique Mainon is an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker living in Laguna Beach, California. She has written several books along with noted author and film historian James Ursini including Femme Fatale: Cinema's Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies (ISBN 0879103698)(Limelight Editions, 2009), Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Obsession and Love Gone (ISBN 0879103477) and The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women On-Screen, all published by Hal Leonard/Limelight Editions. She has contributed to other books such as Gangster Film Reader, edited by Alain Silver and James Ursini, and co-authored "Mae West" (ISBN 382282321X) which is part of the Taschen Movie Icons Series edited by Paul Duncan. Mainon is also noted as a transhumanist and futurist. Speaking on a radio interview with Dr. James Hughes, the Executive Director The Institute of Ethics and Emerging Technologies and author of Citizen Cyborg, Mainon revealed that one of her latest books in progress is an extensive study and reference about the changing role of androids, robots and cyborgs in cinema and pop-culture. She is also completing Suburban Apocalypse: The Debasement of the American Dream in Cinema, a book co-written by Scott Tapio. Further information about Dominique Mainon can be found at www.dominiquemainon.com
Books
Cinema of obsession
"In Cinema of Obsession, film scribes Dominique Mainon and James Ursini tackle stories of love and its many dark permutations - the male domination of Phantom of the Opera and The Collector, the star-crossed love stories of Romeo and Juliet and Bonnie and Clyde, the violent female obsession of Mulholland Drive and Fatal Attraction - all of these and dozens more are discussed in depth, analyzed, and dissected. In addition to plot description, character analysis, and commentary, Mainon and Ursini offer psychological profiles of cinemas most infamous and tortured characters. No stone is left unturned in this, the first comprehensive guide to the twisted side of romantic cinema."--Jacket.
The Modern Amazons
The Modern Amazons: Warrior Women on Screen documents the public's seemingly insatiable fascination with the warrior woman archetype in film and on television. The book examines the cautious beginnings of new roles for women in the late fifties, the rapid development of female action leads during the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement in the late sixties and seventies, and the present-day onslaught of female action characters now leaping from page to screen. The book itself is organized into chapters that group women warriors into sub-genres, e.g., classic Amazons like Xena Warrior Princess and the women of the Conan films; superheroes and their archenemies such as Wonder Woman, Batgirl, and Catwoman; revenge films such as the Kill Bill movies; Sexploitation and Blaxploitation films such as Coffy and the Ilsa trilogy; Hong Kong cinema and warriors like Angela Mao, Cynthia Rothrock, and Zhang Ziyi; sci-fi warriors from Star Trek, Blade Runner, and Star Wars! ; supersleuths and spies like the Avengers and Charlie's Angels; and gothic warriors such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Kate Beckinsale in Underworld and Van Helsing. In addition, the book is lavishly illustrated with over 400 photos of these popular-culture icons in action, interesting articles and sidebars about themes, trends, weapons, style, and trivia, as well as a complete filmography of more than 150 titles.