THE DREAD OF DIFFERENCE: GENDER AND THE HORROR FILM
Book ID/图书代码： 13590012B56582
English Summary/英文概要： An undying procession of sons of Dracula and daughters of darkness has animated the horror film genre from the beginning. Indeed, in this pioneering exploration of the cinema of fear, Barry Keith Grant and twenty other film critics posit that horror is always rooted in gender, particularly in anxieties about sexual difference and gender politics.
The book opens with the influential theoretical works of Linda Williams, Carol J. Clover, and Barbara Creed. Subsequent essays explore the history of the genre, from classic horror such as King Kong and Bride of Frankenstein to the more recent Fatal Attraction and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Other topics covered include the work of horror auteurs David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, and George Romero; the Aliens trilogy; and the importance of gender in relation to horror marketing and reception.
Other contributors include Vera Dika, Thomas Doherty, Lucy Fischer, Christopher Sharrett, Vivian Sobchack, Tony Williams, and Robin Wood. Writing across a full range of critical methods from classic psychoanalysis to feminism and postmodernism, they balance theoretical generalizations with close readings of films and discussions of figures associated with the genre.
The Dread of Difference demonstrates that horror is hardly a uniformly masculine discourse. As these essays persuasively show, not only are horror movies about patriarchy and its fear of the feminine, but they also offer feminist critique and pleasure.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 吸血鬼德拉庫拉的子孫們和黑暗國度的女兒們的綿延不斷的故事從一開始便賦予恐怖電影一些神秘的色彩。事實上，在這部對於恐怖電影的前驅探索中，美國學著巴瑞·K·格蘭特和二十世紀的電影評論家們，推定這些恐怖的元素通常都是來源於性，尤其是在對關於性別差異和性政治上的渴望。
本書以琳達·威廉姆斯，卡羅爾·J·科洛弗，和芭芭拉·克里徳的具有影響力的作品作為開篇。隨後的雜文探索了流派的歷史，從諸如《金剛》和《科學怪人弗蘭肯斯坦的新娘》到最近的《致命的誘惑》和《吸血鬼驚情四百年》的經典恐怖電影。其他的論題包括電影導演大衛·柯南伯格，達裏奧·奧金圖，和喬治·羅梅尼；《異形》三部曲等恐怖電影作品；以及性別在恐怖營銷和感受的重要相關性。
其他的編著者包括維拉·利嘉，托馬斯·多爾蒂，露西·費舍爾，克里斯多夫·夏勒特，托尼·威廉姆斯，和羅賓·伍德。橫跨從經典的精神分析到女權主義和後現代主義的整個領域的批判法，他們以對電影的最近解讀以及和對個相關風格流派人物的探討，來概括這一理論體系。
《恐懼的差異》展示了恐懼不同於一般意義上的男性話語。隨著這些雜文令人信服的解說，恐怖電影不僅是對父權制和對父權制的恐懼，同時也是對女權主義的批判和調侃。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 巴瑞·K·格蘭特是加拿大安大略省布魯克大學電影與流行文化的教授。他是《電影風格：從肖像到意識形態》（2007年）和《發現之旅：弗雷德里克·懷斯曼的電影》(1992年)兩部作品的作者
Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Film and Popular Culture at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007) and Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederic Wiseman (1992).
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