Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One
6. 3 When the Woman Looks 17
7. 2 Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection 37
8. 3 Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film 68
9. 4 The Monster and the Homosexual 116
10. Part Two
11. 5 “It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify You”: Gender, Reception, and Classic Horror Cinema 145
12. 6 Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange 171
13. 7 Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror 192
14. 8 Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy 209
15. 9 Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film 228
16. 10 Gender, Genre, Argento 241
17. 11 “Beyond the Veil of the Flesh”: David Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror 259
18. 12 The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture 281
19. 13 Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminisms: Rethinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth’s Hostel Films 305
20. Part Three
21. 14 Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty 329
22. 15 The Monster as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People 346
23. 16 Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein 359
24. 17 Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula 388
25. 18 Old Times in Werewolf of London 403
26. 19 Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film 430
27. 20 Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary’s Baby 439
28. 21 The Place of Passion: Reflections on Fatal Attraction 459
29. 22 Feminine Horror: The Embodied Surrealism of In My Skin 470
30. 23 Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Twentynine Palms 488
31. Selected Bibliography 509
32. Notes on Contributors 517
33. Index 523