Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition by Carol J. Clover

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition

Carol J. Clover

260 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction feminism horror dark slow-paced
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Ideal for readers intrigued by feminist critiques of horror cinema, exploring how these films subvert traditional gender roles through the lens of victim-heroes and audience engagement.

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Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero...

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