Carol J. Clover

The Horror Show: Stephen Graham Jones returns to his slasher-film inspiration with the nostalgia saturated novel My Heart Is a Chainsaw

Steven Beattie October 18, 2021November 7, 2021 International Literature, Novels

The author returns to the slasher film saturated ground he has trod before to provide a loving homage that leans a bit too heavily on insider knowledge of the genre.

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All horror is body horror: An introduction to a month of fear

Steven Beattie October 1, 2021October 1, 2021 Reading

The genre “specifically devoted to the arousal of bodily sensation” traffics in transgression and finds pleasure in the disreputable.

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The Horror Show: Carol J. Clover and gender subversion in the modern horror film

Steven Beattie October 6, 2020March 12, 2021 Film, Non-fiction

Clover codified the notion of the final girl, but her 1992 text on the modern horror film extends her inquiry further than just that.

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