Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Women Make Horror is a book that challenges the assumption that women are not interested in making horror films and explores the history and presence of women in the horror genre. It includes case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian, and Australian filmmakers, films, and festivals, and offers a transformative perspective on women filmmakers and genre.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2020
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Winner of the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from BAFTSS, the 2021 British Fantasy Award in Best Non-Fiction, and a finalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, Runner-Up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror Awards, "Women Make Horror" sets right these misconceptions. Women have always made horror. They have always been an audience for the genre, and today, as this book reveals, women academics, critics, and filmmakers alike remain committed to a film genre that offers almost unlimited opportunities for exploring and deconstructing social and cultural constructions of gender, femininity, sexuality, and the body.

Women Make Horror explores narrative and experimental cinema, short, anthology, and feature filmmaking, and offers case studies of North American, Latin American, European, East Asian, and Australian filmmakers, films, and festivals. With this book, we can transform how we think about women filmmakers and genre.

Weight: 354g
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781978805118