Title: Recreational terror
First published: 1997
Description: In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.
Subjects: Motion picture audiences, History and criticism, Horror films, Motion pictures and women, Women, Motion pictures, social aspects
LC classification: PN1995.9.H6 P46 1997