The dread of difference : gender and the horror film / / edited by Barry Keith Grant

• Pubblicazione: Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (558 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6164
• Soggetto topico: Horror films - History and criticism; Sex role in motion pictures; Women in motion pictures
• Persona (resp. second.): GrantBarry Keith <1947->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: “The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays on recent developments such as the Hostel series and torture porn. Informative and enlightening, this updated classic is an essential reference for fans and students of horror movies.”—Stephen Prince, editor of The Horror Film and author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality “An impressive array of distinguished scholars . . . gazes deeply into the darkness and then forms a Dionysian chorus reaffirming that sexuality and the monstrous are indeed mated in many horror films.”—Choice “An extremely useful introduction to recent thinking about gender issues within this genre.”—Film Theory
• Titolo autorizzato: The dread of difference
• ISBN: 1-4773-0241-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814435203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Texas film and media studies series.