Men, Women, and Chain Saws
Subtitle: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 22, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780691006208
Subjects: Films, cinema; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Film Studies; Gender Studies; Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
First sentence: AT THE BOTTOM of the horror heap lies the slasher (or splatter or shocker or stalker) film: the immensely generative story of a psychokiller who slashes to death a string of mostly female victims, one by one, until he is subdued or killed, usually by the one girl who has survived.