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Gender and the nuclear family in twenty-first century horror

Title
  1. Gender and the nuclear family in twenty-first century horror / Kimberly Jackson.
Published by
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Jackson, Kimberly, 1975-

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Description
  1. 218 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  1. 2000 - 2099
  2. Horror films > United States > History and criticism
  3. Motion pictures > History > 21st century
  4. Families in motion pictures
  5. Sex role in motion pictures
  6. Horror films
  7. Motion pictures
  8. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  2. History.
Contents
  1. Introduction: the "post"- era: defining post-patriarchy and post-feminism -- Impossible womanhood and post-feminist hegemony in Bertino's The strangers and Peirce's Carrie -- 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 -- Family horror, media saturation, and the phenomenon of true crime in Derrickson's Sinister -- Returning to the archaic mother: Collet-Serra's Orphan, Muschietti's Mama, and Flanagan's Oculus -- Conclusion.
Call number
  1. MFL 16-1696
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203), filmography (pages 205-207), and index.
Author
  1. Jackson, Kimberly, 1975- author.
Title
  1. Gender and the nuclear family in twenty-first century horror / Kimberly Jackson.
Publisher
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright date
  1. ©2016
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203), filmography (pages 205-207), and index.
Chronological term
  1. 2000 - 2099
LCCN
  1. 2015020331
ISBN
  1. 9781137536778 (alk. paper)
  2. 1137536772 (alk. paper)
  3. 9781137532749 (ePUB)
  4. 9781137532756 (ePDF)
Research call number
  1. MFL 16-1696
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