Gender and Werewolf Cinema

Gender and Werewolf Cinema
Author: Jason Barr
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-05-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476666385

It all begins with a howl, the unsettling sound which tells audiences that someone will soon become a werewolf. But the changes that occur during that transformation aren't just physical; they are psychological as well. Unremarkable men become domineering leaders. Innocuous men become violent and overtly sexual. In films from The Wolf Man and An American Werewolf in London to Ginger Snaps, when the protagonists become werewolves, their perceptions of their gender and their masculinity or femininity change dramatically. This volume explores how werewolves in cinema have provided an avenue for frank and often enlightening conversations about gender roles and masculinity. Werewolves are indeed a harbinger of change, but the genre of werewolf cinema itself has changed over time in how different styles of masculinity and different gender identities are portrayed.

Gender and Werewolf Cinema

Gender and Werewolf Cinema
Author: Jason Barr
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2020-04-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476639906

It all begins with a howl, the unsettling sound which tells audiences that someone will soon become a werewolf. But the changes that occur during that transformation aren't just physical; they are psychological as well. Unremarkable men become domineering leaders. Innocuous men become violent and overtly sexual. In films from The Wolf Man and An American Werewolf in London to Ginger Snaps, when the protagonists become werewolves, their perceptions of their gender and their masculinity or femininity change dramatically. This volume explores how werewolves in cinema have provided an avenue for frank and often enlightening conversations about gender roles and masculinity. Werewolves are indeed a harbinger of change, but the genre of werewolf cinema itself has changed over time in how different styles of masculinity and different gender identities are portrayed.

Phases of the Moon

Phases of the Moon
Author: Craig Ian Mann
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1474441149

Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf filmProvides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf filmReconsiders the psychoanalytic paradigms that have dominated scholarly discussion of werewolves in pop cultureIncludes over 40 individual case studies to illustrate how werewolf films can be understood as products of their cultural momentIdentifies the cinematic werewolf's most common metaphorical dimensionsHorror monsters such as the vampire, the zombie and Frankenstein's creature have long been the subjects of in-depth cultural studies, but the cinematic werewolf has often been considered little more than the 'beast within': a psychoanalytic analogue for the bestial side of man. This book, the first scholarly study of the werewolf in cinema, redresses the balance by exploring over 100 years of werewolf films, from The Werewolf (1913) to Wildling (2018) via The Wolf Man (1941), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), The Howling (1981) and WolfCop (2014). Revealing the significance of she-wolves and wolf-men as evolving metaphors for the cultural fears and anxieties of their times, Phases of the Moon serves as a companion and a counterpoint to existing scholarship on the werewolf in popular culture, and illustrates how we can begin to understand one of our oldest mythical monsters as a rich and diverse cultural metaphor.

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Author: Samantha Holland
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787698971

This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.

She-wolf

She-wolf
Author: Hannah Priest
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2018-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 071909819X

She-wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. The book includes contributors from various disciplines, and offers a cross-period, interdisciplinary exploration of a perennially popular cultural production. The book covers material from the Middle Ages to the present day with chapters on folklore, history, witch trials, Victorian literature, young adult literature, film and gaming. Considering issues such as religious and social contexts, colonialism, constructions of racial and gendered identities, corporeality and subjectivity – as well as female body hair, sexuality and violence – She-wolf reveals the varied ways in which the female werewolf is a manifestation of complex cultural anxieties, as well as a site of continued fascination.

Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy

Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy
Author: R. Howard Bloch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520327306

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema

Race, Class, and Gender in
Author: L. Ramey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2007-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230603564

The medieval film genre is not, in general, concerned with constructing a historically accurate past, but much analysis nonetheless centers on highlighting anachronisms. This book aims to help scholars and aficionados of medieval film think about how the re-creation of an often mythical past performs important cultural work for modern directors and viewers. The essays in this collection demonstrate that directors intentionally insert modern preoccupations into a setting that would normally be considered incompatible with these concepts. The Middle Ages provide an imaginary space far enough removed from the present day to explore modern preoccupations with human identity.

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film

Gender and Contemporary Horror in Film
Author: Samantha Holland
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787698998

This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.

Men, Women, and Chain Saws

Men, Women, and Chain Saws
Author: Carol J. Clover
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0691166293

Examining the popularity of low-budget cinema, particularly slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films, the author argues that, while such films have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasure to their mostly male audiences, in actuality they align spectators not with the male tormentor but with the females being tormented--particularly the slasher movie's "final girls"--Who endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves.--Adapted from publisher description.

Scotland

Scotland
Author: David Martin-Jones
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2010-08-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748686541

Scotland: Global Cinema focuses on the explosion of filmmaking in Scotland in the 1990s and 2000s. It explores the various cinematic fantasies of Scotland created by contemporary filmmakers from all over the world who braved the weather to shoot in Scotla