The dread of difference : gender and the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant.
| Other author | Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015. |
| Description | xv, 539 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Texas film and media studies series Texas film and media studies series. ^A446621 |
| 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 Clover -- The monster and the homosexual / Harry M. Benshoff -- "It will thrill you, it will terrify 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 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" : David Cronenberg and the disembodiment of horror / Lianne McLarty -- The horror film in neoconservative culture / Christopher Sharrett -- Torture porn and uneasy feminisms : rethinking (wo)men in Eli Roth's hostel films / Maisha Wester -- Horror, femininity, and Carrie's monstrous puberty / Shelley Stamp -- The monster as woman : two generations of cat people / Karen Hollinger -- Here comes the bride : wedding gender and race in Bride of Frankenstein / Elizabeth Young -- Burying the undead : the use and obsolescence of Count Dracula / Robin Wood -- Old times in Werewolf of London / Robert Spadoni -- Daughters of darkness : the lesbian vampire on film / Bonnie Zimmerman -- Birth traumas : parturition and horror in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fischer -- The place of passion : reflections on Fatal attraction / James Conlon -- Feminine horror : the embodied surrealism of In my skin / Adam Lowenstein -- Uncanny horrors : male rape in Twentynine palms / Lisa Coulthard. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-516) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014031553 |
| ISBN | 9780292771376 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780292772458 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |