Recreational terror : women and the pleasures of horror film viewing /

In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1997.
Series:SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.
Subjects:
Horror films > History and criticism.
Motion picture audiences.
Motion pictures and women.
Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > Publics.
Cinéma et femmes.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Horror films.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Recreational terror and the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film
  • The pleasure of seeing/not-seeing the spectacle of the wet death
  • ... And then she killed him: women and violence in the slasher film
  • The cultural politics of the postmodern horror film
  • Race horror.

Similar Items