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Men, women, and chain saws : gender in the modern horror film /

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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 torm...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clover, Carol J., 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2015].
Series:Princeton classics.
Subjects:
Horror films > History and criticism.
Gender identity in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Princeton Classics edition
  • Carrie and the boys
  • Her body, himself
  • Opening up
  • Getting even
  • The eye of horror
  • Afterword.