| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Texas film studies series |
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Texas film studies series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-438) and index. |
| 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 J. Clover -- "It will thrill you, it may shock 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 |
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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": Cronenberg and the disembodiment of horror / Lianne McLarty -- The horror film in neoconservative culture / Christopher Sharrett -- Horror, femininity, and Carrie's monstrous puberty / Shelley Stamp Lindsey -- The monster as |
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woman: two generations of cat people / Karen Hollinger -- Here comes the bride: wedding gender and race in Bride of Frankenstein / Elizabeth Young -- King Kong: the beast in the boudoir, or, "you can't marry that girl, you're a gorilla!" / Harvey Roy Greenberg -- The Stepfather: father as monster in the contemporary horror film / Patricia Brett Erens -- Burying the undead: the use and obsolescence of Count Dracula / Robin Wood -- Daughters of darkness: the lesbian |
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vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman -- From Dracula, with love / Vera Dika -- The place of passion: reflections on Fatal attraction / James Conlon -- Birth traumas: parturition and horror in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fischer. |
| Subject |
Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Women in motion pictures.
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| Added Author |
Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0292727933 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0292727941 paperback alkaline paper |
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