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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film
Women in horror films, 1930s

Women in horror films, 1930s

Gregory W. Mank - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 403 pages
They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankensteins Monster, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, King Kong, the Wolf Man, or any of the other ...
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Horror, The Film Reader

Horror, The Film Reader

Mark Jancovich - Performing Arts - 2002 - 188 pages
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Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film
Recreational terror: women and the pleasures of horror film viewing

Recreational terror: women and the pleasures of horror film viewing

Performing Arts - 1997 - 177 pages
In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for ...
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Theory of the image: capitalism, contemporary film, and women

Theory of the image: capitalism, contemporary film, and women

Ann Kibbey - Performing Arts - 2005 - 240 pages
Ann Kibbey's 'Theory of the Image' is based on a concept of the image as a dynamic relation rather than a thing. In three essays Kibbey contends that the image itself is an ...
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The Naked And The Undead: Evil And The Appeal Of Horror
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Barbara Creed - Performing Arts - 1993 - 182 pages
In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing ...
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Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage and Hollywood Performance

Creating the Couple: Love, Marriage and Hollywood Performance

Virginia W. Wexman - Performing Arts - 1993 - 288 pages
This examination of the changing relationships between men and women in modern culture argues that Hollywood film has often been a powerful mirror of American romance and ...
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Rape-revenge Films: A Critical Study

Rape-revenge Films: A Critical Study

Alexandra Heller-nicholas - Performing Arts - 2011 - 230 pages
"Only on rare occasions has the rape-revenge movie transcended what is assumed to be its exploitative nature and moved into the mainstream. This overview reassesses that ...
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