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

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

“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 essay...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Benshoff, Harry M.,
Berenstein, Rhona J.,
Clover, Carol J.,
Conlon, James,
Coulthard, Lisa,
Creed, Barbara,
Doherty, Thomas,
Fischer, Lucy,
Grant, Barry Keith,
Hollinger, Karen,
Knee, Adam,
Lowenstein, Adam,
McLarty, Lianne,
Sharrett, Christopher,
Sobchack, Vivian,
Spadoni, Robert,
Stamp, Shelley,
Wester, Maisha,
Williams, Linda,
Williams, Tony,
Young, Elizabeth,
Zimmerman, Bonnie,
HerausgeberIn:
Grant, Barry Keith,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Second edition
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of 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

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