
Men, Women, and Chain Saws
Gender in the Modern Horror Film
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Narrated by:
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Eva Wilhelm
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Carol J. Clover
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. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented - notably the slasher movie's "final girls" - as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers.
Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition is a definitive work that has found an avid fanbase from students of film theory to major Hollywood filmmakers.
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Regardless, this is a great way to enrich your knowledge of cinemas least understood genre.
Rich and insightful
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Good reader, decent book
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Brilliant insight and analysis!
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A must listen for horror fans!
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Very insightful!
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Absolutely Fascinating!
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In chapter 3
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pls get a new recording
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The author using mainly Texas chainsaw massacre, exorcist, deliverance, and a few other films, explains how certain themes appear over again in these movies causing audiences to follow and empathize with the main characters and see movie tropes of it’s time. This book is where the concept of the final girl arises from.
But within a very short few years, the slasher genre ended and the movie Scream commented on various horror tropes that made this book outdated and audiences familiar with the movies cliques and film language that this book analyzes. I mean did we need a whole chapter to explain to us that whether one is male or female that rape is bad?
The book is also written very academic so listeners might get bored, especially with the monotone British lady narrating this book. If you enjoyed your college academic texts then you’ll know if you will like this book
Outdated by today’s standards but interesting academic read
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Deeply Misogynistic
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