Listen free for 30 days
-
Men, Women, and Chain Saws
- Gender in the Modern Horror Film
- Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wish list failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy Now for $22.26
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Publisher's Summary
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented - notably the slasher movie's "final girls" - as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers.
Including a new preface by the author, this Princeton Classics edition is a definitive work that has found an avid fanbase from students of film theory to major Hollywood filmmakers.
What listeners say about Men, Women, and Chain Saws
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 2023-01-28
Good book, painful narration
It's a bit dated in terms of gender. Very binary male/female, and definitely a product of late second wave feminism, but overall, it is very satisfying and stimulating.
*However*, the narrator had the cadence of a nasal text-to-speech bot. Made it hard to get into the flow of this work.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!