Isabel Cristina Pinedo

Challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence.

Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing

Recreational Terror

Taylor

The pleasure of recreational terror depends on the tension between not (fully) seeing, the pleasure of recoil, and seeing (more fully), the pleasure of the gaze. [54]
If pornography is the genre of the wet dream, then horror is the genre of the wet death. [61]

this book is a REVELATION!! 

list of classic/recommended horror that is now about 60% recs from this book: https://letterboxd.com/diken/list/cla... (add me on letterboxd xoxo)

Recreational Terror Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing

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