Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror
In: Springer eBook Collection
In: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Through films such as Orphan , Insidious , and Carrie , Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and the depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology