Studying Media for my A2 course this year. My coursework on Masculinisation of Women within the Thriller/Horror genre was made easy with this book. So glad I came across it. Thank you Clover!

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Review: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film

Clover's book argues that exploitation and disreputable genre movies are capable of expressing a purer empathy for oppressed people - women, mostly, but really any marginalized group - than more ... Read full review

Review: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film

Clover's analysis is thorough and I think she is on the ball with most of her ideas. I just couldn't fully immerse myself in it because of its academic language. It's as though writing this book was a ... Read full review

Review: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film

Interesting discussion of women and their roles in the genre of horror films. I'm not sure where I stand on how much Freud Clover relies on, but she does pose some very intriguing ideas. Read full review

Review: Men, Women and Chainsaws

This book is responsible for igniting my horror obsession. Various genres are covered (slasher, possession, haunting, revenge-I Spit On Your Grave gets a lot of attention), as well as films that ... Read full review

Review: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film

If you like B-grade horror flicks and have a hankerin' for feminist theory, you'll love this book . . . Clover looks at a huge spectrum of horror films, from the lowest of the low ("I Spit On Your ... Read full review

Review: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film

Although later critics have taken exception to a number of Clovers' perceptions, I find them to be quite prescient to this day. In fact, I would wager that those critics didn't really read the book, a ... Read full review

Review: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film

Great book. A landmark work that I had read in pieces through other texts, nice to have read it straight through. It is also nice to see her respectfully acknowledge the (inescapable) Christian Metz and Laura Mulvey tradition while still evaluating their blind spots. Read full review

Review: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in Modern Horror Film

brilliant book on horror films by a world class medievalist-- argues that gender identification is more flexible than previously thought, particularly in horror films where male audiences come to identify with the Final Girl.