![]() ![]() Clover (Author) 7 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover £50.00 3 Used from £39.99 Paperback £17.80 1 Used from £17.80 Print length 288 pages Language English Publisher BFI Publishing Publication date 1 Dec. ![]() Once derided by respectable critics for its femininity, Gothic horror is today a film genre more typically blamed for masculine sadism. Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film Paperback 1 Dec. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. Horror movies, she concludes, use female bodies not only for the male spectator to feel at, but for him to feel through. Men, Women, and Chain Saws Gender in the Modern Horror Film By Carol J. ![]() It is the fraught relation between the "tough girl" of horror and her male fan that Clover explores. A paradox is that, since the late 1970s, the victim-hero is usually female and the audience predominantly male. 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. 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. Through thoughtful and academic lenses she looks at the slasher/horror genre as one with the potential to build empathy. : Princeton University Press, c1992ĭo the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you. ![]()
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