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Carol J. Clover

    Men, Women, and Chainsaws
    • Men, Women, and Chainsaws

      Gender in the Modern Horror Film

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      Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of oppression.

      Men, Women, and Chainsaws1993
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