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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1997.
Colección:SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.
Temas:
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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