Gender and the nuclear family in twenty-first century horror /
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the "post"- era: defining post-patriarchy and post-feminism
- Impossible womanhood and post-feminist hegemony in Bertino's The strangers and Peirce's Carrie
- Like son, like father: tracing the male possession narrative through Shyamalan's The sixth sense, Koepp's Stir of echoes and Wan's Insidious and Insidious:chapter 2
- Family horror, media saturation, and the phenomenon of true crime in Derrickson's Sinister
- Returning to the archaic mother: Collet-Serra's Orphan, Muschietti's Mama, and Flanagan's Oculus
- Conclusion.