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In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.
Through interpretations of a number of horror films including The Thing, The Wizard of Gore, The Stepfather, and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pinedo looks at how the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film produce the conditions for recreational terror.
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Recreational Terror : Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing SUNY Series, Interruptions -- Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s
author
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Pinedo, Isabel Cristina.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0791434427
print isbn13
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9780791434420
ebook isbn13
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9780585055299
language
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English
subject
Horror films--History and criticism, Motion picture audiences, Motion pictures and women.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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PN1995.9.H6P46 1997eb
ddc
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791.43/616/082
subject
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Horror films--History and criticism, Motion picture audiences, Motion pictures and women.
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SUNY Series, INTERRUPTIONS: Border Testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s
Henry A. Giroux, editor
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Recreational Terror
Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing
Isabel Cristina Pinedo
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1997 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957 Recreational terror: women and the pleasures of horror film viewing / Isabel Cristina Pinedo. p. cm. (SUNY series, Interruptions Border testimony(ies) and Critical Discourse/s) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-3441-9 (hc: acid-free paper). ISBN 0-7914-3442-7 (pbk.: acid-free paper) 1. Horror filmsHistory and criticism. 2. Motion picture audiences. 3. Motion pictures and women. I. Title. II. Series. PN1995.9.H6P46 1997 791.43616082dc2197-8033 CIP
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For Heather
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Contents
List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1. Recreational Terror and the Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film
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2. The Pleasure of Seeing/Not-Seeing the Spectacle of the Wet Death
51
3.... And Then She Killed Him: Women and Violence in the Slasher Film
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4. The Cultural Politics of the Postmodern Horror Film
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