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The dread of difference : gender and the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 D74 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Texas film and media studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- When the woman looks / Linda Williams
- Horror and the monstrous-feminine : an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed
- Her body, himself : gender in the slasher film / Carol Clover
- The monster and the homosexual / Harry M. Benshoff
- "It will thrill you, it will terrify you, it might even horrify you" : gender, reception, and classic horror cinema / Rhona J. Berenstein
- Bringing it all back home : family economy and generic exchange / Vivian Sobchack
- Trying to survive on the darker side : 1980s family horror / Tony Williams
- Genre, gender, and the aliens trilogy / Thomas Doherty
- Taking back the Night of the living dead : George Romero, feminism, and the horror film / Barry Keith Grant
- Gender, genre, argento / Adam Knee
- "Beyond the veil of the flesh" : David Cronenberg and the disembodiment of horror / Lianne McLarty
- The horror film in neoconservative culture / Christopher Sharrett
- Torture porn and uneasy feminisms : rethinking (wo)men in Eli Roth's hostel films / Maisha Wester
- Horror, femininity, and Carrie's monstrous puberty / Shelley Stamp
- The monster as woman : two generations of cat people / Karen Hollinger
- Here comes the bride : wedding gender and race in Bride of Frankenstein / Elizabeth Young
- Burying the undead : the use and obsolescence of Count Dracula / Robin Wood
- Old times in Werewolf of London / Robert Spadoni
- Daughters of darkness : the lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman
- Birth traumas : parturition and horror in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fischer
- The place of passion : reflections on Fatal attraction / James Conlon
- Feminine horror : the embodied surrealism of In my skin / Adam Lowenstein
- Uncanny horrors : male rape in Twentynine palms / Lisa Coulthard.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780292771376
- 0292771371
- 9780292772458
- 0292772459
- OCLC:
- 889324085
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