| Author | : Samantha Holland |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2019-03-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1787698971 |
This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.
| Author | : Carol J. Clover |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2015-05-26 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0691166293 |
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.
| Author | : Steven Gerrard |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2019-03-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1787691055 |
Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, including Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, The Exorcist, iZombie, and Bates Motel.
| Author | : Samantha Holland |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2019-03-13 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1787698998 |
This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.
| Author | : Hilary Radner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2012-03-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136519122 |
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, indie flicks, and women lawyer films. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist ideas. Topics include the gendered political economy of cinema, the female director as auteur, postfeminist fatherhood, consumer culture, depictions of professional women, transgender, sexuality, gendered violence, and the intersections of gender, race, and ethnic identities. The volume contains essays by following contributors: Taunya Lovell Banks, Heather Brook, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Michael DeAngelis, Barry Keith Grant, Kelly Kessler, Hannah Hamad, Christina Lane (with Nicole Richter), JaneMaree Maher, David Hansen-Miller (with Rosalind Gill), Gary Needham, Sarah Projansky, Hilary Radner, Rob Schaap, Yael D Sherman, Michele Shreiber, Janet Staiger, Peter Stapleton, Rebecca Stringer, Yvonne Tasker, and Ewa Ziarek.
| Author | : Pisters Patricia Pisters |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2020-08-18 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1474466982 |
Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, Patricia Pisters investigates contemporary women directors such as Ngozi Onwurah, Claire Denis, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Ana Lily Amirpour, who put 'a poetics of horror' to new use in their work, expanding the range of gendered and racialised perspectives in the horror genre. Exploring themes such as rage, trauma, sexuality, family ties and politics, New Blood in Contemporary Cinema takes on avenging women, bloody vampires, lustful witches, scary mothers, terrifying offspring and female Frankensteins. By following a red trail of blood, the book illuminates a new generation of women directors who have enlarged the general scope and stretched the emotional spectrum of the genre.
| Author | : Rikke Schubart |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2018-07-12 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1501336738 |
Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. In horror we engage not only with the negative emotions of fear and disgust, but with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age. Since the turn of the millennium, we have seen a new generation of female protagonists in horror. There are feisty teens in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), troubled mothers in The Babadook (2014), and struggling women in the New French extremity with Martyrs (2008) and Inside (2007). At the fuzzy edges of the genre are dramas like Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Black Swan (2010), and middle-age women are now protagonists with Carol in The Walking Dead (2010–) and Jessica Lange's characters in American Horror Story (2011–). Horror is not just for men, but also for women, and not just for the young, but for audiences of all ages.
| Author | : Kimberly Jackson |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2016-04-29 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137532750 |
Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.
| Author | : Barbara Creed |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2015-09-04 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1136750754 |
In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, T
