Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film.

Front Cover -- Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: BODIES -- Chapter 1 'It's So Easy to Create a Victim': Subverting Gender Stereotypes in the New French Extremity -- 1.1. Yuletide Terror: Inside (2007) -- 1.2. Manufacturing Victims: Martyrs (2008) -- 1.3. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Elegiac Masculinity in Bubba Ho-Tep and Late Phases -- 2.1. Hegemonic Masculinity in an Ageing World -- 2.2. Horror Elegies: Bubba Ho-Tep and Late Phases -- 2.3. Elegy for National Masculinity -- References -- Chapter 3 Game of Werewolves: XXI Century Spanish Werewolves and the Conflict of Masculinity -- 3.1. Spanish Recent Past and Masculinity -- 3.2. Lobos de Arga -- 3.3. Conclusion -- References -- Films Cited -- Chapter 4 Navigating the Mind/body Divide: The Female Cannibal in French Films Grave (Raw, 2016), Dans ma peau (In My Skin,... -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Loss of Bodily Control in Trouble Every Day -- 4.3. The Mind/Body Divide in Dans Ma Peau -- 4.4. Unruly Bodies in Grave -- 4.5. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 Gendering the Cannibal in the Postfeminist Era -- 5.1. Gendering the Cannibal in the Postfeminist Era -- 5.2. Incest, Objectification and the Limits of Subjectivity -- 5.3. Monstrous Femininity in 301/302 -- 5.4. Consuming Subjectivities in The Woman -- 5.5. The Fight for Subjectivity in Raw -- 5.6. Conclusion -- References -- PART II: BOUNDARIES -- Chapter 6 #Selfveillance: Horror's Slut Shaming through Social Media, Sur- and Selfveillance -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. When a Woman Is Looked At -- 6.3. When a Woman Looks at Her Self -- 6.4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7 Gay Porn (Horror) Parodies -- 7.1. Parody and Gay Porn (with Horror as Case Study) -- 7.2. Close Readings -- 7.2.1. Narrative (vs Sex).

7.2.2. Twink Porn with a Side of Parody -- 7.2.3. Uneasy Connections between Explicit (Homo)Sex and Violence -- 7.3. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 'In Celebration of Her Wickedness?': Critical Intertextuality and the Female Vampire in Byzantium -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 9 'There's a Ghost in My House': The Female Gothic and the Supernatural in What Lies Beneath (2000) -- References -- Filmography -- Chapter 10 The Monstrous-feminine and Masculinity as Abjection in Turkish Horror Cinema: An Analysis of Haunted (Musallat, ... -- 10.1. From 'Isolated Cases' to the Emergence of Horror as Genre in Turkey -- 10.2. The Emergence of Horror Cinema in the 2000s -- 10.2.1. Haunted -- 10.3. The Monstrous-feminine and Its Abject Womb in Haunted -- 10.4. The Male Saviours and the Rational Bystanders -- 10.5. Masculinity as Abjection -- 10.6. Conclusion -- References -- PART III: CAPTIVITY -- Chapter 11 Gender Ideologies, Social Realities and New Technologies in Recent Latin American 'Abduction' Horror -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Gender Roles in US Horror -- 11.3. Hybridity and Horror in Latin America -- 11.4. Reconfiguring Feminist Readings of Horror -- 11.5. Recent Latin American Abduction Horror and Gender Ideologies -- 11.5.1. Scherzo Diabolico -- 11.5.2. Luna de Miel -- 11.5.3. Sudor Frío -- 11.6. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 Misogyny or Commentary? Gendered Violence Outside and Inside Captivity -- References -- Music -- Filmography -- Chapter 13 "My Name Is Alice. And I Remember Everything." Project Alice and Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil Films -- 13.1. Resident Evil: The Films -- 13.2. Overview of the Films -- 13.3. Project Alice: Character Physical Presence and Character Arc -- References -- Chapter 14 The Final Girls (2015) as a Video Essay: A Metalinguistic Play with Genre and Gender Conventions.

14.1. Slasher Horror and Film Theory -- 14.1.1. The Victims -- 14.1.2. The Killer -- 14.1.3. Weapons -- 14.1.4. Shock -- 14.1.5. Terrible Place -- 14.1.6. The Final Girl -- 14.1.7. The Body -- 14.2. The Final Girls: Intertextuality, Metalanguage and Film Theory -- 14.3. The End? -- References -- Chapter 15 Dissecting Depictions of Black Masculinity in Get Out -- 15.1. Introduction -- 15.1.1. Get Out -- 15.2. Theoretical Framework -- 15.2.1. Horror and the Gaze -- 15.2.2. The Horrors of Racism -- 15.2.3. The Racism of Horror -- 15.3. Where Is My Mind? Get Out and the Humanity of Black Men in Horror -- 15.4. Black Boyhood and Vulnerability -- 15.5. Breaking Barriers for Black Men in Horror (but not Black Women?) -- 15.6. The Terrifying Risks Involved in Respectability Politics -- 15.7. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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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