Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol J Clover
Concentrating on three horror genres in which women and gender issues are the central focus, this study argues that sadism is actually the lesser part of the horror experience, and that audiences are drawn to the plight of the victim-hero - a figure that suffers pain but eventually vanquishes evil.
"[A] brilliant analysis of gender and its disturbances in modern horror films. . . Bubbling away beneath Clover's multi-faceted readings of slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films is the question of what the viewer gets out of them. . . . [She] argues that most horror films are obsessed with feminism, playing out plots which climax with an image of (masculinized) female power and offering visual pleasures which are organized not around a mastering gaze, but around a more radical "victim-identified' look."---Linda Ruth Williams, Sight and Sound
"Carol Clover's compelling [book] challenges simplistic assumptions about the relationship between gender and culture. . . . She suggests that the "low tradition' in horror movies possesses positive subversive potential, a space to explore gender ambiguity and transgress traditional boundaries of masculinity and femininity."---Andrea Walsh, The Boston Globe
"Fascinating, Clover has shown how the allegedly naïve makers of crude films have done something more schooled directors have difficulty doing - creating females with whom male veiwers are quite prepared to identify with on the most profound levels" * The Modern Review *
"Carol Clover's compelling [book] challenges simplistic assumptions about the relationship between gender and culture. . . . She suggests that the "low tradition' in horror movies possesses positive subversive potential, a space to explore gender ambiguity and transgress traditional boundaries of masculinity and femininity."---Andrea Walsh, The Boston Globe
"Fascinating, Clover has shown how the allegedly naïve makers of crude films have done something more schooled directors have difficulty doing - creating females with whom male veiwers are quite prepared to identify with on the most profound levels" * The Modern Review *
Carol J. Clover is Professor of Scandinavian and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691048024 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691048029 |
| Title | Men, Women, and Chain Saws |
| Author | Carol J Clover |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1992-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
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