![]() ![]() This may not be news in the third wave of intersectional feminism, but in the 90s it’s clearly a radical idea, and Clover uses it as a jumping-off point to talk about the semiotics of a lot of different horror tropes. One of Clover’s central questions is: why are horror audiences mostly young men when popular wisdom of the time says that male viewers will only identify with male characters? (Unsurprisingly, nobody thought it was weird for female viewers to identify with male characters.) Spoiler: people can identify with characters of any gender. While I have to agree with my dog that Freud and psychoanalysis in general are over-used and often-unconvincing tools of critical theory, I’m still finding this book very enlightening.
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