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Men, Women, and Chain Saws : Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Clover, Carol J. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. According To That View, The Power Of Films Like Halloween And Texas Chain Saw Massacre Lies In Their Ability To Yoke Us In The Killer's Perspective And To Make Us Party To His Atrocities. In This Book Carol Clover Argues That Sadism Is Actually The Lesser Part Of The Horror Experience And That The Movies Work Mainly To Engage The Viewer In The Plight Of The Victim-hero - The Figure Who Suffers Pain And Fright But Eventually Rises To Vanquish The Forces Of Oppression. A Paradox Is That, Since The Late 1970s, The Victim-hero Is Usually Female And The Audience Predominantly Male. It Is The Fraught Relation Between The Tough Girl Of Horror And Her Male Fan That Clover Explores. Horror Movies, She Concludes, Use Female Bodies Not Only For The Male Spectator To Feel At, But For Him To Feel Through. The Author Concentrates On Three Genres In Which Women And Gender Issues Loom Especially Large: Slasher Films, Satanic Possession Films, And Rape-revenge Films, Especially Those In Which The Victim Is From The City And The Rapists From The Country. Her Investig
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- Author
- Clover, Carol J.
- Publisher
- N.J. : Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691006208
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (809 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13