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The Dread of Difference

Gender and the Horror Film
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015

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“The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays on recent developments such as the Hostel series and torture porn. Informative and enlightening, this updated classic is an essential reference for fans and students of horror movies.”—Stephen Prince, editor of The Horror Film and author of Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality

“An impressive array of distinguished scholars . . . gazes deeply into the darkness and then forms a Dionysian chorus reaffirming that sexuality and the monstrous are indeed mated in many horror films.”—Choice

“An extremely useful introduction to recent thinking about gender issues within this genre.”—Film Theory

Author / Editor information

Barry Keith Grant is Professor in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. He is the author or editor of many books, including 100 Science Fiction Films, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and four editions of Film Genre Reader.

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"The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It’s rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays on recent developments such as the Hostel series and torture porn. Informative and enlightening, this updated classic is an essential reference for fans and students of horror movies."
— Stephen Prince, editor of The Horror Film and author Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality

"These essays are highly intelligent, yet also highly readable, and because of that, the book comes highly recommended. It’s a fantastic, meaty-thick collection as is, but also a good gateway for cinephiles who haven’t yet dared make the leap into reading film criticism, as opposed to the mere 'movie review.’"
— Flick Attack

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

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  • Part One
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    3 When the Woman Looks

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    Linda Williams
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    2 Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection

    37
    Barbara Creed
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    3 Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film

    68
    Carol J. Clover
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    4 The Monster and the Homosexual

    116
    Harry M. Benshoff
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    5 “It Will Thrill You, It May Shock You, It Might Even Horrify You”: Gender, Reception, and Classic Horror Cinema

    145
    Rhona J. Berenstein
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    6 Bringing It All Back Home: Family Economy and Generic Exchange

    171
    Vivian Sobchack
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    7 Trying to Survive on the Darker Side: 1980s Family Horror

    192
    Tony Williams
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    8 Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy

    209
    Thomas Doherty
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    9 Taking Back the Night of the Living Dead: George Romero, Feminism, and the Horror Film

    228
    Barry Keith Grant
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    10 Gender, Genre, Argento

    241
    Adam Knee
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    11 “Beyond the Veil of the Flesh”: David Cronenberg and the Disembodiment of Horror

    259
    Lianne McLarty
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    12 The Horror Film in Neoconservative Culture

    281
    Christopher Sharrett
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    13 Torture Porn and Uneasy Feminisms: Rethinking (Wo)men in Eli Roth’s Hostel Films

    305
    Maisha Wester
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    14 Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty

    329
    Shelley Stamp
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    15 The Monster as Woman: Two Generations of Cat People

    346
    Karen Hollinger
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    16 Here Comes the Bride: Wedding Gender and Race in Bride of Frankenstein

    359
    Elizabeth Young
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    17 Burying the Undead: The Use and Obsolescence of Count Dracula

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    18 Old Times in Werewolf of London

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    Robert Spadoni
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    19 Daughters of Darkness: The Lesbian Vampire on Film

    430
    Bonnie Zimmerman
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    20 Birth Traumas: Parturition and Horror in Rosemary’s Baby

    439
    Lucy Fischer
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    21 The Place of Passion: Reflections on Fatal Attraction

    459
    James Conlon
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    22 Feminine Horror: The Embodied Surrealism of In My Skin

    470
    Adam Lowenstein
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    23 Uncanny Horrors: Male Rape in Twentynine Palms

    488
    Lisa Coulthard
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    Selected Bibliography

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    Notes on Contributors

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    Index

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