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Title: The Dread of Difference : Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant ISBN: 0-292-72794-1 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A few factual errors cancel out critical excellence.
Comment: The amount and diversity of the crictical opinions expressed in this book should give it at least 4 stars. Sadly two essayists works contain errors so blatantly ignorant of the source material I had to dock the whole barrel a single star. Carol J. Clover goes into incredible, albeit wincingly inaccurate, detail when describing the stabbing deaths of two characters in a hot tob in the film Halloween 2. However neither of these characters were stabbed in the actual scene, one was strangled and the other scalded. In another example, editor Barry K. Grant, in his essay on legendary horror auteur George A. Romero, continually confuses Dawn of the Dead with Day of the Dead and vice versa. One would think that after supposedly studying these films so closely the writers would get the titles and scenes correct in the texts. Error quibbles aside THE DREAD OF DIFFERENCE is a fascinating and mostly positive study of a genre that has been critically maligned (if not out and out ignored) for far too long.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential.
Comment: For students of horror and film this book is indispensible. Taking horror film seriously is, many times, a losing proposition, but not for the writers here. The essays on the "Alien" films and David Cronenberg are worth the price alone. One of the best books on horror movies out there--intellectually satisfying and illuminating, worlds away from the tepid, incomplete "encyclopediac" fare usually published. My highest recommendations.
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Title: Men, Women, and Chain Saws by Carol J. Clover ISBN: 0691006202 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Popular Fictions Series) by Barbara Creed ISBN: 0415052599 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Horror, The Film Reader (In Focus: Routledge Film Readers) by Mark Jancovich ISBN: 0415235626 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 29 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Revised Edition with a New Afterword by David J Skal ISBN: 0571199968 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Horror Genre by Paul Wells ISBN: 1903364000 Publisher: Wallflower Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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