horrormovies

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

Next up in quarterly review faves: non-fiction and lit fic. Biggest surprise: all the nature non-fiction I've done in the last three months, none of it ended up sticking with me, and the reading experience/writing quality was really hit and miss. Might have to rethink sampling in that subgenre (no more picking it up because it has a tree on the cover! Literary fiction is never my primary genre, at least I read ONE I loved! 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams | Alan Goldsher, Robert Englund

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I ADOREEEEE....Robert Englund....this was such a fun read and he has had such an amazing life and career. Reading stories about his adventures immediately makes you want to watch or re-watch whichever movie he is talking about. Totally recommend this to his fans or movie buffs.

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Ephemera

Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies | Lee Dr Mellor

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This book is a two-fer. You get a synopsis of a movie plus a detailed account of the criminal and the crimes that inspired the film. Starting with “M”, made in 1931, the book includes movies such as “Psycho”, “The Exorcist”, “The Silence of the Lambs”, “Scream”, and “Poltergeist”, to name a few. If you like scary movies, you might enjoy this book.

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Robotswithpersonality

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

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Fucking fascinating. Maybe a little too much Freud. Apologies for the dreadful cover showing in your feed.
Carol J. Clover's 'Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film' remains one of my faves of the collection, I realize that's my final girl bias showing through.
I think I honestly enjoyed Thomas Doherty's 'Genre, Gender and The Aliens Trilogy' (written back when it was just a trilogy) because those films made such an impression on me. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The collection also expands several times on how the nuclear family (male patriarch) is threatened, essays individually containing stronger or weaker links back to gendered concerns via a mother who is somehow perverse; then stumbles into intersectional territory. There are a number of essays discussing queerness, seemingly more entries about gay men than lesbians, and some discussion of racism. Unfortunately, the inclusion of essays focusing on these topics felt more scattered than intentional and seemed to veer away from discussions of gender and, as the little ♀️symbol on the cover suggests, specifically depictions of women in horror. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/4 I would love to see a third edition, (there was about ten years between the first and second edition, it's been nearly ten years since the second, so it's time!) with parts that expand upon the gender discussion beyond women as minority gender, into discussion of transgender, non-binary/agender spectrum, perhaps an interlude for new ways the masculine is treated or expanded upon as well, then a dedicated section that focuses more on how gender in family in horror works, with all the mother aspects situated there, and then a dedicated section for how intersecting queerness and bipoc rep into gender affects readings of certain films' texts. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/4 In the meantime I'm definitely going to keep poking around for horror non-fiction with this kind of insight, especially centred on the final girl trope. Happy to take reccs if you got 'em!
⚠️ALL THE WARNINGS. If you're worried about it, there's probably at least a mention in this essay collection, and there are also black and white stills from the films in question. BEWARE. 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

The film being discussed is from Belgium in 1970.
It is 2024. WHY are there no feminist, lesbian vampire films I'm hearing about in present day North America?!
That would be so epic. 🙇🏼‍♂️

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Robotswithpersonality

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

👀 Well THAT certainly sounds worth tracking down. 😉

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Robotswithpersonality

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

I'm definitely getting 'not mad, just disappointed' in the contemporary consumer/movie goer, vibes from Sharrett.

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Robotswithpersonality

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

Just another way to say apathetic cynicism isn't a useful attitude?

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Robotswithpersonality

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

Today, in nifty things found in library books: 💀

julesG Cool!!! 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film | Barry Keith Grant

Queer = Awesome
Aka inclusively challenging the status quo.
Sorry for any outdated terms on display; I gather from this second edition's introduction, some of these essays are from the 90s or earlier.

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