false 293192 5 Before <i>Men, Women, and Chain Saws</i>, most film critics assumed that horror (especially slasher) films entail a male viewer sadistically watching the plight of a female victim. Carol Clover argues convincingly that both male and female viewers not only identify with the victim, but experience, through the actions of the "final girl," a climactic moment of female power. As the <i>Boston Globe</i> writes, <i>Men, Women, and Chain Saws</i> "challenges simplistic assumptions about the relationship between gender and culture... [Clover] suggests that the 'low tradition' in horror movies possesses positive subversive potential, a space to explore gender ambiguity and transgress traditional boundaries of masculinity and femininity." Be forewarned, though: Clover addresses an academic audience, so her language can be heavy going. <p> Related title: <i>The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film</i> by Barry Keith Grant 364105 1992 Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film total:170|5:58|4:78|3:29|2:4|1:1| 170 698 276 27 4 3 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 16:17:56 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 13:21:40 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Jun 27 10:30:27 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 27 10:32:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 15:02:02 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 15:02:58 -0700 2009 Men, Women, and Chain Saws confronts the (then) prevailing consensus that horror movies were about guys watching girls get brutalized. The author argues that there is often a "final girl" who by the end of the movie fights back against the opp...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 06:07:02 -0700 2007 Fri May 18 06:07:08 -0700 2007 Witchboard? Pumpkinhead?), the book is valuable a...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 11 07:36:21 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 07:43:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 17:56:11 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 14 06:44:31 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 09:33:14 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 04:02:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Sep 23 15:39:51 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 11:01:52 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 11:02:56 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Apr 18 08:55:16 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 18 08:55:44 -0700 2008 Men, Women and Chainsaws, written in 1992, Carol J. Clover looks at the horror movies of the preceding two decades, focusing particularly on low-budget films and even more particularly on that most despised of all sub-genres, the slasher film. Clover disputes the traditional interpretation of su...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Feb 13 17:10:25 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 17:16:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 26 13:10:26 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 13:10:26 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Mar 25 22:51:05 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 22:58:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 22 12:55:05 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 13:06:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Feb 05 11:58:06 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 12:04:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 19:43:31 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 15:34:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 10 20:18:13 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 19 15:16:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 31 09:55:10 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 02 10:57:19 -0800 2008
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