Gender and the nuclear family in twenty-first century horror
By: by Kimberly Jackson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781137536778
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Families in motion pictures; History and criticism; Horror films; Sex role in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the "post"- era: defining post-patriarchy and post-feminism; title: Impossible womanhood and post-feminist hegemony in Bertino's The strangers and Peirce's Carrie; title: 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; title: Family horror, media saturation, and the phenomenon of true crime in Derrickson's Sinister; title: Returning to the archaic mother: Collet-Serra's Orphan, Muschietti's Mama, and Flanagan's Oculus; title: Conclusion.