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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Women and the pleasures of horror film viewing".
- catalog contributor b10441627.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Recreational terror and the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film -- The pleasure of seeing/not-seeing the spectacle of the wet death -- ... And then she killed him: women and violence in the slasher film -- The cultural politics of the postmodern horror film -- Race horror.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 177 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0791434419 (hc : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791434427 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series, interruptions -- border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog subject "791.43/616/082 21".
- catalog subject "Horror films History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Motion picture audiences.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures and women.".
- catalog subject "PN1995.9.H6 P46 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Recreational terror and the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film -- The pleasure of seeing/not-seeing the spectacle of the wet death -- ... And then she killed him: women and violence in the slasher film -- The cultural politics of the postmodern horror film -- Race horror.".
- catalog title "Recreational terror : women and the pleasures of horror film viewing / Isabel Cristina Pinedo.".
- catalog title "Women and the pleasures of horror film viewing".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".