Attack Of The Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, And Spectatorship In Classic Horror Cinema; Author: Berenstein, Rhona Joella; Paperback

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Attack Of The Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, And Spectatorship In Classic Horror Cinema

Author: Berenstein, Rhona Joella
Film and Culture (Paperback); Paperback; 30 Illustrations
292 pages
Published: January 1996
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0231084633
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Looking at such films as Frankenstein, Svengali, King Kong and The Mark of the Vampire, Berenstein argues that classical horror cinema is marked by malleable gender roles, not by entrenched conventional personas.Gender, sexuality, and spectatorship in classic horror cinema. 1930s horror films - including hypnosis, mad-doctor, and jungle horror movies - proved to be lucrative ventures for film companies. This text focuses on this genre, analyzing its gender dynamics with the publicity and film reviews surrounding each of its releases.

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