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The Dread of Difference, 2nd ed. : Gender and the Horror Film / ed. by Barry Keith Grant.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477302415
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6164 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H6
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- 3 When the Woman Looks -- 2 Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection -- 3 Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film -- 4 The Monster and the Homosexual -- Part Two -- 5 “It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify You”: Gender, Reception, and Classic Horror Cinema -- 6 Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange -- 7 Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror -- 8 Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy -- 9 Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film -- 10 Gender, Genre, Argento -- 11 “Beyond the Veil of the Flesh”: David Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror -- 12 The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture -- 13 Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminisms: Rethinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth’s Hostel Films -- Part Three -- 14 Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty -- 15 The Monster as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People -- 16 Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein -- 17 Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula -- 18 Old Times in Werewolf of London -- 19 Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film -- 20 Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary’s Baby -- 21 The Place of Passion: Reflections on Fatal Attraction -- 22 Feminine Horror: The Embodied Surrealism of In My Skin -- 23 Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Twentynine Palms -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: “The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays on recent developments such as the Hostel series and torture porn. Informative and enlightening, this updated classic is an essential reference for fans and students of horror movies.”—Stephen Prince, editor of The Horror Film and author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality “An impressive array of distinguished scholars . . . gazes deeply into the darkness and then forms a Dionysian chorus reaffirming that sexuality and the monstrous are indeed mated in many horror films.”—Choice “An extremely useful introduction to recent thinking about gender issues within this genre.”—Film Theory
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- 3 When the Woman Looks -- 2 Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection -- 3 Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film -- 4 The Monster and the Homosexual -- Part Two -- 5 “It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify You”: Gender, Reception, and Classic Horror Cinema -- 6 Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange -- 7 Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror -- 8 Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy -- 9 Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film -- 10 Gender, Genre, Argento -- 11 “Beyond the Veil of the Flesh”: David Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror -- 12 The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture -- 13 Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminisms: Rethinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth’s Hostel Films -- Part Three -- 14 Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty -- 15 The Monster as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People -- 16 Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein -- 17 Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula -- 18 Old Times in Werewolf of London -- 19 Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film -- 20 Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary’s Baby -- 21 The Place of Passion: Reflections on Fatal Attraction -- 22 Feminine Horror: The Embodied Surrealism of In My Skin -- 23 Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Twentynine Palms -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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“The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays on recent developments such as the Hostel series and torture porn. Informative and enlightening, this updated classic is an essential reference for fans and students of horror movies.”—Stephen Prince, editor of The Horror Film and author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality “An impressive array of distinguished scholars . . . gazes deeply into the darkness and then forms a Dionysian chorus reaffirming that sexuality and the monstrous are indeed mated in many horror films.”—Choice “An extremely useful introduction to recent thinking about gender issues within this genre.”—Film Theory

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In English.

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