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UNINA9910460502403321 |
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Titolo |
The dread of difference : gender and the horror film / / edited by Barry Keith Grant |
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Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (558 p.) |
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Collana |
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Texas Film and Media Studies Series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Horror films - History and criticism |
Sex role in motion pictures |
Women in motion pictures |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Acknowledgments""; ""Part One""; ""1. When the Woman Looks (Linda Williams)""; ""2. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection (Barbara Creed)""; ""3. Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film (Carol J. Clover)""; ""4. The Monster and the Homosexual (Harry M. Benshoff)""; ""Part Two""; ""5. "It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify You": Gender, Reception, and Classic Horror Cinema (Rhona J. Berenstein)""; ""6. Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange (Vivian Sobchack)"" |
""7. Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980's Family Horror (Tony Williams)""""8. Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy (Thomas Doherty)""; ""9. Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film (Barry Keith Grant)""; ""10. Gender, Genre, Argento (Adam Knee)""; ""11. "Beyond the Veil of the Flesh": Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror (Lianne McLarty)""; ""12. The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture (Christopher Sharrett)""; ""Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminisms: Rethinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth's Hostel Films Maisha Wester""; ""Part Three"" |
""14. Horror, Femininity, and Carrie's Monstrous Puberty (Shelley |
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Stamp)""""15. The Monster as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People (Karen Hollinger)""; ""16. Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein (Elizabeth Young)""; ""17. Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula (Robin Wood)""; ""18. Old Times in Werewolf of London (Robert Spadoni)""; ""19. Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film (Bonnie Zimmerman)""; ""20. Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary's Baby (Lucy Fischer)"" |
""21. The Place of Passion: Reflections on Fatal Attraction (James Conlon)"" ""22. Feminine Horror: The Embodied Surrealism of In My Skin (Adam Lowenstein)""; ""23. Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Twenty-nine Palms (Lisa Coulthard)""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index"" |
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