grotesque and bare

i’m reading it too! and yes, here are some i have read/want to:

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films by Kier-la Janisse

Horror by Brigid Cherry

Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis by Barbara Creed

Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde by Joan Hawkins

Female Masochism in Film: Sexuality, Ethics and Aesthetics by Ruth McPhee

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror by Kimberly Jackson

Killing Women: The Visual Culture Of Gender And Violence by Susan Lord

Mastering Fear: Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror by Rikke Schubart

Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood by Sarah Arnold

Misfit Sisters: Screen Horror as Female Rites of Passage by Sue Short

Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing by Isabel Cristina Pinedo

Representations of Femininity in American Genre Cinema: The Woman’s Film, Film Noir, and Modern Horror by David Greven

Revisionist Rape-Revenge: Redefining a Film Genre by Claire Henry

Searching for Sycorax: Black Women’s Hauntings of Contemporary Horror by Kinitra D. Brooks

The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant

The Women of Hammer Horror: A Biographical Dictionary and Filmography by Robert Michael Bobb Cotter

The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory by Tania Modleski

Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture by Yvonne D. Sims

Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror by Erin Harrington

Suspiria by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Jack Halberstam

Ms. 45 by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula by Alexandra West

Women in Horror Films, 1940s by Gregory William Mank

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture by Raechel Dumas