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

by Kimberly Jackson

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137536772
• ISBN13: 9781137536778
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"