The Rise Of Women In Horror Fandom And Film

Author : James Morgat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783656540199
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Women in Horror Fandom and Film written by James Morgat and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, language: English, comment: author is james morgart, abstract: Most scholarship on the horror film has assumed that males are the primary spectators of horror; however, there have been developments, both in scholarship as well as in mainstream media, to contradict this point. In 2009, journalist Michelle Orange pointed out, in an article written for the New York Times, "Recent box office receipts show that women have an even bigger appetite for these [horror] films than men." Furthermore, Brigid Cherry has continually underscored the point that horror has its roots in the Gothic, a traditionally female genre whose roots are traced back to the sexually transgressive Horace Walpole and female writer Mary Shelley. Cherry also points out that a 1996 market survey "found that Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors was 'more popular with women than men, with over twice as many women than men liking it, '" and that despite claims by Linda Williams that women "refuse to look" at scenes of horror, the gratuitous shows played at the renown Grand Guignol often resulted in women assisting men from walking out of the theater after the men had fainted at the scenes of blood and gore. Cherry's implication, obviously, is that women have always enjoyed horror, but their enjoyment of the genre has gone unnoticed, and perhaps this is true, however, both Cherry and Orange have missed an even more significant emergent trend in horror.

Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691166293
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men, Women, and Chain Saws written by Carol J. Clover and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the popularity of low-budget cinema, particularly slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films, the author argues that, while such films have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasure to their mostly male audiences, in actuality they align spectators not with the male tormentor but with the females being tormented--particularly the slasher movie's "final girls"--Who endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves.--Adapted from publisher description.

Author : Alison Peirse
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978805136
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Make Horror written by Alison Peirse and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSS Winner of the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-Fiction​ ​Finalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Runner-Up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror Awards​ “But women were never out there making horror films, that’s why they are not written about – you can’t include what doesn’t exist.” “Women are just not that interested in making horror films.” This is what you get when you are a woman working in horror, whether as a writer, academic, festival programmer, or filmmaker. These assumptions are based on decades of flawed scholarly, critical, and industrial thinking about the genre. Women Make Horror sets right these misconceptions. Women have always made horror. They have always been an audience for the genre, and today, as this book reveals, women academics, critics, and filmmakers alike remain committed to a film genre that offers almost unlimited opportunities for exploring and deconstructing social and cultural constructions of gender, femininity, sexuality, and the body. Women Make Horror explores narrative and experimental cinema; short, anthology, and feature filmmaking; and offers case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian, and Australian filmmakers, films, and festivals. With this book we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.

Author : Samantha Holland
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787698971
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film written by Samantha Holland and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.

Author : Steve Chibnall
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415230032
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Horror Cinema written by Steve Chibnall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Horror Cinema investigates a wealth of horror filmmaking in Britain, from early chillers like The Ghoul and Dark Eyes of London to acknowledged classics such as Peeping Tom and The Wicker Man. Contributors explore the contexts in which British horror films have been censored and classified, judged by their critics and consumed by their fans. Uncovering neglected modern classics like Deathline, and addressing issues such as the representation of family and women, they consider the Britishness of British horror and examine sub-genres such as the psycho-thriller and witchcraftmovies, the work of the Amicus studio, and key filmmakers including Peter Walker. Chapters include: the 'Psycho Thriller' the British censors and horror cinema femininity and horror film fandom witchcraft and the occult in British horror Horrific films and 1930s British Cinema Peter Walker and Gothic revisionism. Also featuring a comprehensive filmography and interviews with key directors Clive Barker and Doug Bradley, this is one resource film studies students should not be without.

Author : Cher Martinetti
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762498528
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop Culture Pioneers written by Cher Martinetti and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the empowering and inspiring women who helped create, shape, and make pop culture great, from the creator of SYFY WIRE's FANGRRLS and the podcast "Forgotten Women of Genre"! In every medium in popular culture—from books, films, and video games to comics, television, and animation—women have been instrumental in creating and shaping the worlds, characters, and genres that we know and love. However, much of their hard work and innovation has gone largely unrecognized—until now. With a foreword by American Gods actress Yetide Badaki and essays exploring the history and transformation of pop culture's genres and mediums, Pop Culture Pioneers explores and pays respect to the women who played a crucial role in creating and influencing of some of the most famous worlds and characters in pop culture including: Directors & Producers like Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux, Jennifer's Body), Denise Di Novi (co-producer of Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas), and Jean MacCurdy (producer of Batman: The Animated Series, Animaniacs) Writers & Editors like Jeanette Khan (editor and publisher of DC Comics), Alice Bradley Sheldon (writing as James Tiptree Jr.), and Alison Bechdel (Fun Home) Animators & Artists like Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe), Noelle Stevenson (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and Brenda Chapman (animator and director of Brave) As well as Marlene Clark (Blaxploitation actress), Roberta Williams (creator of the adventure game genre), Yvonne Blake (costume designer for Superman), Bonnie Erickson (co-creator of Miss Piggy), and many more.

Author : Mark Duffett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623565855
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Fandom written by Mark Duffett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fraction of the audience. In the last few decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central mode of consumption. A range of ideas has emerged to explore different facets of this growing phenomenon. With a foreword by Matt Hills, Understanding Fandom introduces the whole field of fan research by looking at the history of debate, key paradigms and methodological issues. The book discusses insights from scholars working with fans of different texts, genres and media forms, including television and popular music. Mark Duffett shows that fan research is an emergent interdisciplinary field with its own key thinkers: a tradition that is distinct from both textual analysis and reception studies. Drawing on a range of debates from media studies, cultural studies and psychology, Duffett argues that fandom is a particular kind of engagement with the power relations of media culture.

Author : Amanda Howell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031128443
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Possibilities written by Amanda Howell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the ‘monstrous feminine’ has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possibility in altered cultures of 21st century screen production and reception. As Barbara Creed notes in a recent interview, the patriarchal stereotype of horror that she named ‘the monstrous-feminine’ has, decades later, ‘embarked on a life of her own’. Focused on this altered and renewed form of female monstrosity, this study engages with an international array of recent and contemporary screen entertainments, from arthouse and indie horror films by emergent female auteurs, to the franchised products of multimedia conglomerates, to 'quality' television horror, to the social media-based creations of horror fans working as ‘pro-sumers’. In this way, the monograph in its organisation and scope maps the converged and rapidly changing environment of 21st century screen cultures in order to situate the monstrous female anti-hero as one of its distinctive products.

Author : Melanie Höpfler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346026760
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of the "Final Girl" in the Movie "You’re Next". Women in Horror Movies written by Melanie Höpfler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Regensburg, course: Final Girl. Frauen im Horrorfilm, language: English, abstract: This paper serves the purpose of presenting the evolution of the "Final Girl" into the "Final Woman", with special focus on the newly developed characteristics. It defines the horror genre and its subgenres. Furthermore, a precise definition of the "Final Girl" is given, explaining all the details on how to define the term. The term "Final Girl" has been underlying specific changes over the past decades. Certain films, for instance, "You’re Next" (USA/UK 2011) were decisive to define a new term. These changes are massive and lead to the assumption that the "Final Girl" has finally evolved into something new.

Author : Alyse Wax
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629337487
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creepy Bitches written by Alyse Wax and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of Creepy Bitches covers all areas of the horror genre, film industry, and fandom.