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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)-Barry Keith Grant

Grant, B. K. (1996). //The dread of difference, gender and the horror film//. (pp. 5,7-9,11,75). Austin, Texas: Univ of Texas Pr.

(Grant, 1996)

__**15 Facts:**__ (Page 5)

(Page 75)
 * **"Typically,...[a woman's] vulnerability and sexuality are heightened because she is a comely maiden 'wearing a night-gown or a wedding-dress or some other light-colored garment'..." -Steve Neale.**
 * Surely the beast in the boudoir constitutes this image for horror, for the sexual tensions that resonate in this scenario vividly evoke the genre's dominant themes.
 * 1) (PAGE 7)
 * Until recently, though, **the** **genre was assumed to be uniformly masculine discourse, just as the audience was said to be predominantly male.**
 * The importance **in classic horror of the physical form of the monster as something "abstracted from man"**
 * Until recently, almost always centered on men going where no one had gone before, and if women did this in the movies they tended to be represented, as Thomas Doherty puts it in his article on the Aliens Trilogy, "Space Bimbos"
 * ** Women have been central to the production of horror as well as its consumption **, from the Gothic novel to the contemporary bestsellers of Anne Rice.
 * While ** women have found it difficult throughout history of cinema to become directors, they are noticeably prominent in contemporary horror film production. **
 * It is not surprising, therefore, that the treatment of gender in the horror genre is in fact markedly heterogeneous.
 * 1) (PAGE 8)
 * The generic image of the beast in the boudoir may offer a startlingly vivid representation of patriarchal control, or critique of it.
 * 1) (Page 9)
 * However, it is not my intention to suggest that all horror films must be read in the context of issues of sexuality and gender
 * There are **examples of issues of race in horror movies**
 * 1) (PAGE 11)
 * ** Gender is central to the horror film, in large part because it inevitably involves other ideological issues as well. **
 * **"A good horror film takes you down into the depths and shows you something about the landscape"-Bruce Kawin**
 * ** Today gender roles are being tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere **, and until such time as difference is no longer dreaded, this crucial aspect of the horror film will remain very important for us.


 * **Year of Films** || **Years they reflect** ||
 * **1960-1974** || **1950s** ||
 * **1974-1986** || **Late sixties and early seventies** ||