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

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror

Av Kimberly Jackson

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Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and  depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-12-01
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 403 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 218
  • Upplaga: 2016
  • Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9781137536778
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Kimberly Jackson is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Language and Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA. She is the author of Technology, Monstrosity, and Reproduction in Twenty-First Century Horror (Palgrave, 2013). Her work has been published in such journals as Victorian Literature & Culture, Horror Studies, and Theory, Culture, and Society, as well as numerous edited volumes.

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"This book offers a fresh theory on one of the horror genre's most recent permutations, a rewriting of the family horror that has marked its narratives since the late 1960s. Jackson elegantly argues that these new films represent a transitional moment in the representation of the family, in which 'patriarchal culture' finds itself 'trapped between a future it cannot envision and a past it cannot forget.' The chapters offer insightful and far-reaching readings of films about which (due to their newness) little has been written. Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is sure to set the stage for further scholarly and popular discussions of family horror." - Aviva Briefel, Professor, English, Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College, USA

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