Phantom Ladies : Hollywood Horror and the Home Front /

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Defying industry logic and gender expectations, women started flocking to see horror films in the early 1940s. The departure of the young male audience and the surprise success of the film Cat People convinced studios that there was an untapped female audience for horror movies, and they adjusted th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Snelson, Tim, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Motion pictures and women.
Horror films.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Femmes au cinema.
Cinema et femmes.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinema.
Films d'horreur > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Horror films > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Horror on the home front
  • Rebecca meets the Wolfman at RKO: the emergence of the female monster cycle, 1942-1943
  • Series, sequels and double bills: the evolution of the female monster cycle, 1943-1944
  • "A" class monsters: the escalation into prestige productions, 1944-1945
  • From whatdunit to whodunit: the postwar psychologization of horror, 1945-1946
  • Conclusion: Only for the duration.

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