![]() Bubbling away beneath Clover's multi-faceted readings of slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films is the question of what the viewer gets out of them. " brilliant analysis of gender and its disturbances in modern horror films. ![]() Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691166292 Number of pages: 280 Weight: 227 g Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18 mm Edition: Revised edition MEDIA REVIEWS ![]() 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. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers. 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. ![]() Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. 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. ![]()
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