Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
By: Carol J. Clover
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film …
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1. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
By: Jason Zinoman
3.86
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time that Steve… read more
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2. House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
By: Kier-la Janisse
4.44
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploi… read more
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"The truth, and the threat it poses, can be too overwhelming to bear, and for many women in the aftermath of the sexual revolution, the truth was that their experiences were being dismissed by the men…"-Kier-la Janisse, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
3. Jaws 2
By: Hank Searls
3.52
Format: 288 pages,
It's four years since the Long Island resort of Amity was terrorized by the monster killer shark...… read more
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4. Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema
By: Yvonne Tasker
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cu… read more
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5. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
By: Carol J. Clover
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
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6. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
By: Barbara Creed
3.86
Format: None pages, Paperback
In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualized only as victim. In The … read more
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7. Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study
By: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
Often considered the lowest depth to which the cinema can plummet, the rape-revenge film has been d… read more
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8. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
By: Julia Kristeva , Leon S. Roudiez
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names a… read more
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9. Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
By: Grady Hendrix
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and '80s . . . if you dare. Page throu… read more
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10. Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror
By: None
4.45
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, … read more
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11. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange
By: Adam Scovell
4.07
Format: 154 pages,
Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The… read more
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12. The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco
By: Julie Salamon
4.06
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking" ( Newsweek ), now the basis for the … read more
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13. Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
By: Robin R. Means Coleman
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
From King Kongto Candyman, the boundary-pushing genre of the horror film has always been a site for… read more
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14. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
By: Stephen Graham Jones
4.21
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more
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"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)
15. Where Monsters Lie
By: Kyle Starks
3.71
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
A brand-new meta-horror story that's Cabin in the Woods meets Tucker and Dale vs. Evil . Haven’t… read more
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16. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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17. The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
By: Mallory O'Meara
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first… read more
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"To the privileged, equality feels like oppression"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"One hundred percent of the top American films of 1954, the year Creature from the Black Lagoon was released, were directed by men. Ninety-six percent of the top American films for 2016, the year I st…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
"Milicent Patrick’s final resting place is in every single Creature from the Black Lagoon T-shirt, every Metaluna Mutant toy, every VHS tape of Fantasia, every DVD of The Shape of Water. It’s on the d…"-Mallory O'Meara, The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
18. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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19. Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
By: W. Scott Poole
3.92
Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition
Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology… read more
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20. Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
By: W. Scott Poole
3.80
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Get Out, Dark Carnivals tells the panoramic story of the fil… read more
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21. The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar
By: Robin R. Means Coleman
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising succ… read more
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