Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror

Kimberly Jackson

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Anno: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781137532756
• Argomento: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Categoria: Storia e critica del cinema

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The “Post” Era: Defining Postpatriarchy and Postfeminism
• 1 Impossible Womanhood and Postfeminist Hegemony in Peirce’s Carrie and Bertino’s The Strangers
• 2 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
• 3 Family Horror, Media Saturation, and the Phenomenon of True Crime in Derrickson’s Sinister
• 4 Returning to the Archaic Mother: Collet-Serra’s Orphan, Muschietti’s Mama, and Flanagan’s Oculus
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Filmography
• Index