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Men, women, and chain saws : gender in the modern horror film / by Carol J. Clover, with a new preface by the author.
Examining the popularity of low-budget cinema, particularly slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films, the author argues that, while such films have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasure to their mostly male audiences, in actuality they align spectators not with the male tormentor but with the females being tormented--particularly the slasher movie's "final girls"--Who endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves.--Adapted from publisher description.
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- ISBN: 9780691166292
- Physical Description: xiii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: Updated edition with a new preface by the author.
- Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2015.
- Copyright: ©1992
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface to the Princeton Classics edition -- Carrie and the boys -- Her body, himself -- Opening up -- Getting even -- The eye of horror -- Afterword. |
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| Genre: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. Horror films. |
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