The Modern Horror Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Modern Horror Film write by John McCarty. This book was released on 1990. The Modern Horror Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John McCarty has selected fifty outstanding examples of the modern horror film. Film buffs will relive the terrors they enjoyed on the screen! Each of the fifty films is documented with casts, credits, production notes and reviews.
Men, Women, and Chain Saws
Men, Women, and Chain Saws - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men, Women, and Chain Saws write by Carol J. Clover. This book was released on 2015-05-26. Men, Women, and Chain Saws available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the popularity of low-budget cinema, particularly slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films, the author argues that, while such films have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasure to their mostly male audiences, in actuality they align spectators not with the male tormentor but with the females being tormented--particularly the slasher movie's "final girls"--Who endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves.--Adapted from publisher description.
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film write by Samantha Holland. This book was released on 2019-03-13. Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.
Horror Film and Otherness
Horror Film and Otherness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horror Film and Otherness write by Adam Lowenstein. This book was released on 2022-07-19. Horror Film and Otherness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and deranged killers are metaphors for society’s fear of the “others” that threaten the “normal.” The monstrous other might represent women, Jews, or Blacks, as well as Indigenous, queer, poor, elderly, or disabled people. The horror film’s depiction of such minorities can be sympathetic to their exclusion or complicit in their oppression, but ultimately, these images are understood to stand in for the others that the majority dreads and marginalizes. Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the category of the other is not fixed. Instead, the genre captures ongoing metamorphoses across “normal” self and “monstrous” other. This “transformative otherness” confronts viewers with the other’s experience—and challenges us to recognize that we are all vulnerable to becoming or being seen as the other. Instead of settling into comforting certainties regarding monstrosity and normality, horror exposes the ongoing struggle to acknowledge self and other as fundamentally intertwined. Horror Film and Otherness features new interpretations of landmark films by directors including Tobe Hooper, George A. Romero, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Stephanie Rothman, Jennifer Kent, Marina de Van, and Jordan Peele. Through close analysis of their engagement with different forms of otherness, this book provides new perspectives on horror’s significance for culture, politics, and art.
Shocking Representation
Shocking Representation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shocking Representation write by Adam Lowenstein. This book was released on 2005-12-22. Shocking Representation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermath of national traumas. Borrowing elements from art cinema and the horror genre, these directors disrupted the boundaries between high and low cinema. Lowenstein contrasts their works, often dismissed by contemporary critics, with the films of acclaimed "New Wave" directors in France, England, Japan, and the United States. He argues that these "New Wave" films, which were embraced as both art and national cinema, often upheld conventional ideas of nation, history, gender, and class questioned by the horror films. By fusing film studies with the emerging field of trauma studies, and drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Adam Lowenstein offers a bold reassessment of the modern horror film and the idea of national cinema.
