Gender and contemporary horror in film /

• Other Authors: Holland, Samantha (Editor), Shail, Robert (Editor), Gerrard, Steven (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Emerald studies in popular culture and gender
• Subjects: Horror films > History and criticism.; Sex role in motion pictures.; Social Science > Gender Studies.; TV & society.

The horror genre will always remain current because it reflects our anxieties, shining a light onto our worst fears whilst creating worlds defined by darkness. Horror as a genre has always engaged with era-specific societal mores and moral panics, often about isolation or abandonment, changing famil...