Men, women, and chain saws : gender in the modern horror film / by Carol J. Clover ; with a new preface by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clover, Carol J., 1940- author.

Series:

Princeton classics.

Princeton Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Sex role in motion pictures.

Gender identity in motion pictures.

Women in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Updated edition with a new preface by the author

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015].

Summary:

From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented-notably the slasher movie's "final girls"-as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers.Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition is a definitive work that has found an avid readership from students of film theory to major Hollywood filmmakers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the Princeton Classics Edition

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: Carrie and the Boys

CHAPTER 1: Her Body, Himself

CHAPTER 2: Himself Opening Up

CHAPTER 3: Getting Even

CHAPTER 4: The Eye of Horror

AFTERWORD

Films Cited

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400866113

1400866111

9780691166292

0691166293

OCLC:

1132229779