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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: The dread of difference
• ISBN: 1-4773-0241-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460502403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Texas film and media studies series.