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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
1997.
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Series: | SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.
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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.