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Gender and contemporary horror in film [electronic resource] / edited by Samantha Holland, Leeds Beckett University, UK, Robert Shail, Leeds Beckett University, UK, Steven Gerrard, Leeds Beckett University, UK

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Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
x, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Holland, Samantha, Gerrard, Steven, 1970-, and Shail, Robert
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Contents
Part I: bodies -- 'It's so easy to create a victim': subverting gender stereotypes in the New French Extremity / Maddi McGillvray -- Elegiac masculinity in Bubba Ho-Tep and Late Phases / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Diego Foronda -- Game of werewolves: XXI century Spanish werewolves and the conflict of masculinity / Irene Baena-Cuder -- Navigating the mind/body divide: the female cannibal in French Films Grave (Raw, 2016), Dans ma peau (In My Skin, 2002) and Trouble Every Day (2001) / Kath Dooley -- Gendering the cannibal in the postfeminist era / Louise Flockhart -- Part II: boundaries -- #Selfveillance: horror's slut shaming through social media, sur- and selfveillance / Hannah Bonner -- Gay porn (horror) parodies / Joseph Brennan -- 'In celebration of her wickedness?' critical intertextuality and the female vampire in Byzantium / Matthew Denny -- 'There's a ghost in my house': the female gothic and the supernatural in What Lies Beneath (2000) / Frances A. Kamm -- The monstrous-feminine and masculinity as abjection in Turkish horror cinema: an analysis of Haunted (Musallat, Alper Mestçi, 2007) / Zeynep Koçer -- Part III: captivity -- Gender ideologies, social realities and new technologies in recent Latin American 'Abduction' horror / Niall Brennan -- Misogyny or commentary? Gendered violence outside and inside Captivity / Shellie McMurdo and Wickham Clayton -- "My name is Alice, and I remember everything." Project Alice and Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil films / Steven Gerrard -- The Final Girls (2015) as a video essay: a metalinguistic play with genre and gender conventions / Emilio Audissino -- Dissecting depictions of black masculinity in Get Out / Francesca Sobande.
Summary
The horror genre will always remain current because it reflects our anxieties, shining a light onto our worst fears whilst creating worlds defined by darkness. Horrow as a genre has always engaged with era-specific societal mores and moral panics, often about isolation or abandonment, changing family values and the role of women. It is often specifically about how gender is constructed in everyday life. Women are commonly defined in horror by their passivity, or monstrosity/sexuality or victimhood--or a mix of the three. At the same time women in horror are forced into psychological and physical torture ending in violent showdowns in which they emerge damaged by triumphant. Bringing together research from a wide range of established and emerging scholars this edited collection provides an insight into how modern horror films portray femininities, sexualities, masculinities, ageing, and other current issues, exploring the use of vampires, zombies, werewolves and ghosts in films made internationally. This volume, one of three by the same editorial team examining the horror genre, focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, asking questions about how and if representations of gender in horror have changed. In these readings and re-readings, the authors examine developments in films about vampires, zombies, werewolves and ghosts, in films made internationally--back cover.
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9781787698987 (Print)
178769898X (Print)
9781787698970 (Online)
9781787698994 (Epub)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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