(Get free) Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
·•●- Carol J. Clover ·•●-
| #452844 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1993-03-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .70 x6.00 x9.10l,.85 | File Name: 0691006202 | 276 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An Interesting, Influential Book|By AwesomeName|If you have any serious interest in studying contemporary horror films then this is a must read. Clover's analyses are always interesting and her theories about the "Final Girl" are some of the most fascinating I've ever read. This book has plenty of relevance today, even if it was written more than a decade ago. Do yourself a fa|.com |Before Men, Women, and Chain Saws, most film critics assumed that horror (especially slasher) films entail a male viewer sadistically watching the plight of a female victim. Carol Clover argues convincingly that both male and female viewers not on
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, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of oppression.
Clover, a medievalist, had written extensively on the literature and culture of early northern Europe, especially the Old Norse sagas. ...
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