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Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film - Gynaehorror (Paperback)
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Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film - Gynaehorror (Paperback)
Series: Film Philosophy at the Margins
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Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space
of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that
relishes the complexities that arise when boundaries - of taste, of
bodies, of reason - are blurred and dismantled. It is also a site
of expression and exploration that leverages the narrative and
aesthetic horrors of the reproductive, the maternal and the sexual
to expose the underpinnings of the social, political and
philosophical othering of women. This book offers an in-depth
analysis of women in horror films through an exploration of
'gynaehorror': films concerned with all aspects of female
reproductive horror, from reproductive and sexual organs, to
virginity, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and finally to menopause.
Some of the themes explored include: the intersection of horror,
monstrosity and sexual difference; the relationships between
normative female (hetero)sexuality and the twin figures of the
chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata; embodiment and
subjectivity in horror films about pregnancy and abortion;
reproductive technologies, monstrosity and 'mad science'; the
discursive construction and interrogation of monstrous motherhood;
and the relationships between menopause, menstruation,
hagsploitation and 'abject barren' bodies in horror. The book not
only offers a feminist interrogation of gynaehorror, but also a
counter-reading of the gynaehorrific, that both accounts for and
opens up new spaces of productive, radical and subversive
monstrosity within a mode of representation and expression that has
often been accused of being misogynistic. It therefore makes a
unique contribution to the study of women in horror film
specifically, while also providing new insights in the broader area
of popular culture, gender and film philosophy.
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