The dread of difference : gender and the horror film /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996. |
| Description: | xv, 456 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas film studies series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2576499 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1.
- 1. When the Woman Looks
- 2. Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine
- An Imaginary Abjection
- 3. Her Body, Himself
- Gender in the Slasher Film
- Part 2.
- 4. "It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify You"
- Gender, Reception, and Classic Horror Cinema
- 5. Bringing It All Back Home
- Family Economy and Generic Exchange
- 6. Trying to Survive on the Darker Side
- 1980s Family Horror
- 7. Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy
- 8. Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead
- George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film
- 9. Gender, Genre, Argento
- 10. "Beyond the Veil of the Flesh"
- Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror
- 11. The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture
- Part 3.
- 12. Horror, Femininity, and Carrie' Monstrous Puberty
- 13. The Monster as Woman
- Two Generations of Cat People
- 14. Here Comes the Bride
- Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein
- 15. King Kong
- The Beast in the Boudoir or, "You Can't Marry That Girl, You're a Gorilla!"
- 16. The Stepfather
- Father as Monster in the Contemporary Horror Film
- 17. Burying the Undead
- The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula
- 18. Daughters of Darkness
- The Lesbian Vampire on Film
- 19. From Dracula--with Love
- 20. The Place of Passion
- Reflections on Fatal Attraction
- 21. Birth Traumas
- Parturition and Horror in Rosemary' Baby
- Selected Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index