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

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

Clover, Carol J.
Clover, Carol J.

Paperback

Series: Princeton Classics, Book 15

Film StudiesGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0691166293
ISBN13: 9780691166292
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 26 2015
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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 on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers.

Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition is a definitive work that has found an avid readership from students of film theory to major Hollywood filmmakers.

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