Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film

Herausgeber: Holland, Samantha; Shail, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781787698987
• ISBN-10: 178769898X
• Artikelnr.: 54028090

Autorenporträt

Samantha Holland is Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her publications include Pole Dancing, Empowerment & Embodiment and Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives: Ghosts & Glamour. She is currently writing a book on Wonder Woman. Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in the School of Film, Music and Performing Arts at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is widely published on postwar British cinema, masculinity in film, and more recently on children's media. He has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship for his study of the Children's Film Foundation. Steven Gerrard is Reader of Film at Northern Film School, Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has written two monographs: one celebrating all things naughty but nice in the Carry On films and another investigating the Modern British Horror Film.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Samantha HollandSection One: Bodies 1. La Fille Final - The
Final Girl in Contemporary French Horror Cinema; Maddison McGilivray 2. The
Aged Male Hero: Masculinity in Bubba Ho-Tep and Late Phases; Fernando G.P.
Berns & Diego Foronda 3. Game of Werewolves - XXI Century Spanish
Werewolves and Conflicts of Masculinity; Irene Baena-Cuder 4. Navigating
the mind/body divide: The Female Cannibal in French Films; Kath Dooley 5.
Gendering the Cannibal in the Post-Feminist Age; Louise Flockhart Section
Two: Boundaries 6. Technology, Social Media and (Self) Surveillance in
Horror Films; Hannah Bonner 7. Gay Porn Horror Parodies; Joseph Brennan 8.
"In Celebration of her Wickedness?" - Critical Intertextuality and the
Female Vampire in Byzantium; Matthew Denny 9. "There's a ghost in my
house." The Female Gothic and Supernatural Horror in Twenty First Century
Cinema; Frances A. Kamm 10. Subverting the Conventions of Islamic Horror in
Turkish Mainstream Cinema: an Analysis of Haunted (Musallat, Mestci, 2007);
Zaynep Kocer Section Three: Captivity 11. Gender Ideology, New Social
Realities and New Technologies in recent Latin America 'Abduction' horror
films; Niall Brennan 12. Misogyny or Commentary: Gendered Violence Outside
and Inside Captivity; Shellie McMurdo & Wickham Clayton 13. "That homicidal
bitch may be our only way out of here." Milla Jovovich and Alice in the
Resident Evil Films; Steven Gerrard 14. The Final Girls (2015) as a Video
Essay: A Metalinguistic Play with Genre and Gender Conventions; Emilio
Audissino 15. Dissecting Depictions of Black Masculinities in Twenty First
Century Horror; Frances Sobande