Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror [electronic resource] /
Jackson, Kimberly.author.
Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The "Post" Era: Defining Postpatriarchy and Postfeminism; 1 Impossible Womanhood and Postfeminist Hegemony in Peirce's Carrie and Bertino's The Strangers; 2 Like Son, Like Father: Tracing the Male Possession Narrative through Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, Koepp's Stir of Echoes, and Wan's Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2; 3 Family Horror, Media Saturation, and the Phenomenon of True Crime in Derrickson's Sinister
4 Returning to the Archaic Mother: Collet-Serra's Orphan, Muschietti's Mama, and Flanagan's OculusConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.
Motion pictures—History.
Film genres.
Communication.
Social groups.
Family.
Film History.
Genre.
Media and Communication.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.