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Gender and the nuclear family in twenty-first century horror / Kimberly Jackson.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 J25 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Kimberly, 1975- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- United States.
- Motion pictures--History--21st century.
- Families in motion pictures.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the "post"- era: defining post-patriarchy and post-feminism
- Impossible womanhood and post-feminist hegemony in Bertino's The strangers and Peirce's Carrie
- Like son, like father: tracing the male possession narrative through Shyamalan's The sixth sense, Koepp's Stir of echoes and Wan's Insidious and Insidious:chapter 2
- Family horror, media saturation, and the phenomenon of true crime in Derrickson's Sinister
- Returning to the archaic mother: Collet-Serra's Orphan, Muschietti's Mama, and Flanagan's Oculus
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203), filmography (pages 205-207), and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137536778
- 1137536772
- OCLC:
- 934281344
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