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The dread of difference : gender and the horror film
- Title
- The dread of difference : gender and the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Grant, Barry Keith, 1947-
- Description
- xv, 539 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Texas film and media studies series
- Uniform Title
- Texas film and media studies series.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-516) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 15-3128
- ISBN
- 9780292771376 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0292771371 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780292772458 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0292772459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014031553
- OCLC
- 889324085
- Title
- The dread of difference : gender and the horror film / edited by Barry Keith Grant.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015.
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Texas film and media studies seriesTexas film and media studies series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-516) and index.
- Added Author
- Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- editor.
- Sudoc No.
- Z UA380.8 D81 txdocs
- Research Call Number
- MFL 15-3128