9780691006208
Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Carol J. Clover
ISBN 13: 9780691006208
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Softcover
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Gender In The Modern Horror Film. Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero - the figure, often a female, who suffers pain and fright but eventually rises to vanquish the forces of oppression.
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"An insightful, daring, and exhaustively researched work that will stimulate a richer dialogue on the relationship of gender and movies."
Boston Globe
Review:"In her readings of both particular horror films and of film and gender theory, Clover does what every cultural critic hopes to: she calls into quesiton our habits of seeing."
Artforum
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