Recreational Terror, livre ebook

Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.

Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.

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.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Recreational Terror and the Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film
2. The Pleasure of Seeing/Not Seeing the Spectacle of the Wet Death
3.... And Then She Killed Him: Women and Violence in the Slasher FIlm
4. The Culture Politics of the Postmodern Horror Film
5. Race Horror
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Films Cited
Index