Men, Women, and Chain Saws

Zusatztext "It's easy to see why this book is considered such a landmark in film analysis." ---Rod Lott, Flick Attack Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Gender In The Modern Horror Film. 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 - the figure, often a female, who suffers pain and fright but eventually rises to vanquish the forces of oppression. Zusammenfassung 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 traditiona

Product details

• Authors: Carol Clover, Carol J Clover, Carol J. Clover, Clover Carol J.
• Assisted by: Carol J. Clover (Foreword), Clover Carol J. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9780691166292
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16629-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Princeton Classics; Princeton Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres