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Winner of the the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSS Winner of the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-Fiction​ ​Finalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Runner-Up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror Awards​ “But women were never out there making horror films, that’s why they are not written about – you can’t include what doesn’t exist.” “Women are just not that interested in making horror films.”   This is what you get when you are a woman working in horror, whether as a writer, academic, festival programmer, or filmmaker. These assumptions are based on decades of flawed scholarly, critical, and industrial thinking about the genre. Women Make Horror sets right these misconceptions. Women have always made horror. They have always been an audience for the genre, and today, as this book reveals, women academics, critics, and filmmakers alike remain committed to a film genre that offers almost unlimited opportunities for exploring and deconstructing social and cultural constructions of gender, femininity, sexuality, and the body. Women Make Horror explores narrative and experimental cinema; short, anthology, and feature filmmaking; and offers case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian, and Australian filmmakers, films, and festivals. With this book we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.

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Author:   Alison Peirse ,  Alison Peirse ,  Alicia Kozma ,  Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781978805118

ISBN 10:   197880511
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   17 September 2020
Recommended Age:   From 16 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Women Make (Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, Edit and Analyze) Horror          Alison Peirse Chapter 2. Stephanie Rothman and Vampiric Film Histories Alicia Kozma Chapter 3. Inside Karen Arthur’s The Mafu Cage Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Chapter 4. The Secret Beyond the Door: Daria Nicolodi and Suspiria’s Multiple Authorship Martha Shearer Chapter 5. Personal Trauma Cinema and the Experimental Videos of Cecelia Condit and Ellen Cantor Katia Houde Chapter 6. Self-Reflexivity and Feminist Camp in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare Tosha R. Taylor Chapter 7. Why Office Killer Matters Dahlia Schweitzer Chapter 8. Murders and Adaptations: Gender in American Psycho Laura Mee Chapter 9. Gender, Genre and Authorship in Ginger Snaps Katarzyna Paszkiewicz Chapter 10. The Feminist Art-Horror of the New French Extremity Maddison McGillvray Chapter 11. Women-Made Horror in Korean Cinema Molly Kim Chapter 12. The Stranger With My Face International Film Festival and the Australian Female Gothic Donna McRae Chapter 13. Slicing Up the Boys’ Club: The Female-led Horror Anthology Film Erin Harrington Chapter 14. The Transnational Gaze in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Lindsey Decker Chapter 15. Gigi Saul Guerrero and her Latin American Female Monsters Valeria Villegas Lindvall Chapter 16. Uncanny Tales: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Évolution Janice Loreck Chapter 17. The (re)Birth of Pregnancy Horror in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge Amy C. Chambers Chapter 18. The Rise of the Female Horror Filmmaker-Fan Sonia Lupher Notes on Contributors Index  

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It's about time a book like this came to light! Why wouldn't women make horror? We've been dealing with it forever. As artists we often bring up the very things we are most afraid of as a way of facing them, and there's a lot to fear in this world where men still dominate. May books like this -- eloquently written -- help to bring about a shift toward equality and embracing female artistic perspectives whatever they may be. --Katt Shea Feature film writer/director

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ALISON PEIRSE is an associate professor in film and media at the University of Leeds, UK. She is author of After Dracula: The 1930s Horror Film and co-editor of Korean Horror Cinema.

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