Gender And The Nuclear Family In Twenty-First-Century Horror

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.

• | Author: Kimberly Jackson
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 227 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137536772
• | ISBN-13: 9781137536778