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25%OFFCarol J. Clover - Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition - 9780691166292 - V9780691166292
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition

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Description for Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition Paperback. Series: Princeton Classics. Num Pages: 280 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: APFN; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented--notably the slasher movie's final girls --as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Princeton Classics
Condition
New
Weight
265 g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691166292
SKU
V9780691166292
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About Carol J. Clover
Carol J. Clover is the Class of 1936 Professor Emerita in the departments of rhetoric, film, and Scandinavian at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Medieval Saga.

Reviews for Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
[A] brilliant analysis of gender and its disturbances in modern horror films... Bubbling away beneath Clover's multi-faceted readings of slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films is the question of what the viewer gets out of them... [She] argues that most horror films are obsessed with feminism, playing out plots which climax with an image of (masculinized) female power and offering visual ... Read more

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