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Attack of the leading ladies: gender, sexuality, and spectatorship in classic horror cinema

1996; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 33; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.33-4395

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Rhona J. Berenstein,

Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Looking at such films as Frankenstein, Svengali, King Kong and The Mark of the Vampire, Berenstein argues that classical horror cinema is marked by malleable gender roles, not by entrenched conventional personas.