Recreational terror : women and the pleasures of horror film viewing /

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Author / Creator:	Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957-
Imprint:	Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series, interruptions -- border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.
Subject:	Horror films -- History and criticism. Motion picture audiences. Motion pictures and women. Horror films. Motion picture audiences. Motion pictures and women. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11103439

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Varying Form of Title:	Women and the pleasures of horror film viewing
ISBN:	0585055297 9780585055299 0791434419 0791434427
Notes:	"Films cited": (p. 163-166). Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957- Recreational terror. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1997 0791434419

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