Men, Women, and Chain Saws (eBook)

Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition

Carol J. Clover (Autor)

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2015 | Updated Edition
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6611-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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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 "e;final girls"e;-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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Classics
• Vorwort: Carol J. Clover
• Zusatzinfo: 23 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Abel Ferrara • Act of Violence • afterword • Banality (sculpture series) • Bandwagon Effect • Between Men • Big O notation • Blood Diner • Blood Feast • Blood Feud (The Simpsons) • bloody knife • body double • Brian de Palma • Bruno Bettelheim • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Butcher knife • Cannibalism • Captain of industry • Carrie White • castration • Castration Anxiety • Cinematography • Close-up • consumer • Creed • Cries and whispers • Criticism • Cross-dressing • Culvert • Darkman • David Cronenberg • David Lynch • Demon Seed • Diegesis • Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors • Equation • Exorcism • Explanation • Fear and Desire • Female hysteria • femininity • For All Practical Purposes • foraminifera • Frankenhooker • Frank Henenlotter • Freddy Krueger • From Reverence to Rape • Gaze • Gazer • Gender Trouble • Genre • Ghoulies • Gilles Deleuze • Great Male Renunciation • Gym • Hardcore pornography • harold schechter • heckler • Hell Night • hinge • his woman • horror fiction • horror film • horsehair • horse meat • human body • Human female sexuality • Hunter's Blood • Ideology • Incest • Incubus • indictment • interdependence • I Spit on Your Grave • Jacques Lacan • Jargon • Joe Bob Briggs • John Cassavetes • jouissance • Kevin S. Tenney • Kill or be Killed • knitting needle • Leatherface • Leonard Maltin • Leopold von Sacher-Masoch • Libido • Loaded language • Long shot • mad scientist • male gaze • Manhunter (Kate Spencer) • Masculinity • Menstruation • Ms. 45 • My Name Is Legion (Zelazny collection) • Narcissism • narrative • Norman Bates • nosebleed • Notation • Obedience (human behavior) • Open set • Patriarchy • Penis • Phallic stage • Pornography • primal scene • Psychoanalysis • Pumpkinhead (film series) • Rape • Rape Culture • Rape Squad • redneck • repetition compulsion • ridicule • Risky Business • Robert Siodmak • Robert Thorn • Roy Schafer • Sadomasochism • Sam Peckinpah • scalpel • Scanners • Scissors • sect • serial killer • Sex and gender distinction • Sex differences in humans • Sexual Violence • slasher film • Slashing (crime) • Soliton • Some Men • Splatter film • stand-in • Strait-Jacket • Susan Brownmiller • Suspense • The Dead Man • The Evil Dead • The Eye Creatures • The Final Girl(s) • The First Man • The Flesh and the Fiends • The Hills Have Eyes 2 • The Incredible Shrinking Man • The Little Shop of Horrors • Thelma & Louise • The Mask • The Stepford Wives • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre • The Two Mrs. Carrolls • The Woodsman • Thorstein Veblen • Those Who Trespass • Through the Camera Eye • Tobe Hooper • tootsie • two women • Vampyr • Videodrome • Viewing (funeral) • Vivian Sobchack • Voyeurism • Water Mass • William Friedkin • Witchboard • workmanship
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6611-1 / 1400866111
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6611-3 / 9781400866113