hey! do you have any specific recs for books about women & horror? i'm reading kier la-janisse's house of psychotic women and really into it
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
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
Offensive Films: Toward An Anthropology Of Cinéma Vomitif by Mikita Brottman
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