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Recreational terror : women and the pleasures of horror film viewing / Isabel Cristina Pinedo.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/sPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585055297
  • 9780585055299
Other title:
  • Women and the pleasures of horror film viewing
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Recreational terror.DDC classification:
  • 791.43/616/082 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H6 P46 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Recreational terror and the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film -- The pleasure of seeing/not-seeing the spectacle of the wet death -- ... And then she killed him: women and violence in the slasher film -- The cultural politics of the postmodern horror film -- Race horror.
Summary: In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.
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"Films cited": (p. 163-166).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.

Print version record.

Recreational terror and the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film -- The pleasure of seeing/not-seeing the spectacle of the wet death -- ... And then she killed him: women and violence in the slasher film -- The cultural politics of the postmodern horror film -- Race horror.

In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.

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