num_pages: 270
description: Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSSShortlisted for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards - Best Non-FictionFinalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Runner-Up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror AwardsBut women were never out there making horror films thats why they are not written about  you cant include what doesnt exist. Women are just not that interested in making horror films. This is what you get when you are a woman working in horror whether as a writer academic festival programmer or filmmaker. These assumptions are based on decades of flawed scholarly critical and industrial thinking about the genre. Women Make Horror sets right these misconceptions. Women have always made horror. They have always been an audience for the genre and today as this book reveals women academics critics and filmmakers alike remain committed to a film genre that offers almost unlimited opportunities for exploring and deconstructing social and cultural constructions of gender femininity sexuality and the body.Women Make Horror explores narrative and experimental cinema; short anthology and feature filmmaking; and offers case studies of North American Latin American European East Asian and Australian filmmakers films and festivals. With this book we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.
language: English
title: Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre
publisher: Rutgers University Press