They have history and character and stories to tell other than the obvious ones. Please remember that these are all vintage books that have often seen better days but, for me and hopefully you too, therein lies their charm. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Through our Etsy page we hope to be able to pass on to like minded souls some of the treasures we find on our wanderings. 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.For one critic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is the Gone With the Wind of. A Britain where the ghosts are unquiet, where the woods are alive and where distinctions between the present, the future and the past are permeable. Clover - Men, women, and chain saws gender in the modern horror film from HUM 4938 at University of South Florida. Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film. Stories that explore a Britain other than the one we think we know. Wyrd Britain is a blog (and Facebook page) concerned with stories in, of, from and about the stranger places of Britain. 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.īook is in pretty good condition with some shelf wear and ink marks to the bottom page edges. Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims.
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