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Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.

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.

Recreational Terror

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      Publisher State University Press of New York (SUNY)
      Published 7 October 1997
      ISBN-13 9780791434420
      978-0791434420
      ISBN-10 0791434427

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.

      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.

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