附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-182) and index.
The American nightmare: horror in the 70s / Robin Wood -- Why horror? / Noel Carroll -- Why horror? The peculiar pleasures of a popular genre / Andrew Tudor -- When the woman looks / Linda Williams -- Horror and the monstrous-feminine: an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed -- Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film / Carol J. Clover -- The monster and the homosexual / Harry M. Benshoff -- Production and reproduction: the case of Frankenstein / Paul O'Flinn -- The problem of British horror / Peter Hutchings -- Sleaze mania, Euro-trash, and high art: the place of European art films in American low culture / Joan Hawkins -- Horror for sale: the marketing and reception of classic horror cinema / Rhona Berenstein -- Genre and the audience: genre classifications and cultural distinctions in the mediation of The Silence of the Lambs / Mark Jancovich -- Learning to scream / Linda Williams -- Refusing to refuse to look: female viewers of the horror film / Brigid Cherry.
摘要:Key articles and essays introduce students to debates over the definition of the horror film as a genre, its sexual politics, and its conditions of production and consumption.
