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By Kimberly Jackson

Gender and the extended family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the 1st book-length venture to concentration particularly at the ways in which patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in renowned American horror motion pictures of the twenty-first century. via analyses of such motion pictures as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson finds how the destruction of male figures and  depictions of lady monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema recommend that modern American tradition unearths itself at a cultural standstill among a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.

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