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Horror, the film reader /
Key articles and essays introduce students to debates over the definition of the horror film as a genre, its sexual politics, and its conditions of production and consumption.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Series: | In focus--Routledge film readers.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The American nightmare: horror in the 70s / Robin Wood
- Why horror? / Noel Carroll
- Why horror? The peculiar pleasures of a popular genre / Andrew Tudor
- 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 J. Clover
- The monster and the homosexual / Harry M. Benshoff
- Production and reproduction: the case of Frankenstein / Paul O'Flinn
- The problem of British horror / Peter Hutchings
- Sleaze mania, Euro-trash, and high art: the place of European art films in American low culture / Joan Hawkins
- Horror for sale: the marketing and reception of classic horror cinema / Rhona Berenstein
- Genre and the audience: genre classifications and cultural distinctions in the mediation of The Silence of the Lambs / Mark Jancovich
- Learning to scream / Linda Williams
- Refusing to refuse to look: female viewers of the horror film / Brigid Cherry.