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    Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
    Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
    Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
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    Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition

    By Carol J. Clover

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    From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented—notably the slasher movie's "final girls"—as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers.

    Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition is a definitive work that has found an avid readership from students of film theory to major Hollywood filmmakers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateMay 26, 2015
    ISBN9781400866113
    Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film - Updated Edition
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    Carol J. Clover

    James L. Hunt is associate professor of law at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

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