Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film assumes, and so film theory claims. Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero, who suffers fright but rises to vanquish the forces of oppression. Clover, a medievalist, had written extensively on the literature...(展开全部)

Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone.With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the d...(展开全部)

Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone.With extraordinary tenderness and insight, Booker Prize–winning author Ian McEwan takes us into the d...(展开全部)

Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement, of terror and dread, and one that relishes the complexities that arise when boundaries – of taste, of bodies, of reason – are blurred and dismantled. It is also a site of expression and exploration that leverages the narrative and aesthetic horrors of the reproductive, the materna...(展开全部)

达德利•安德鲁（Dudley Andrew），美国著名电影理论家，美国艺术与科学研究院委员，耶鲁大学电影中心创建者，谢尔顿•罗斯荣誉教授。获法国文化部授予的法国文化艺术勋章、美国电影与传媒研究会授予的“杰出终生事业成就奖”，著有《主要电影理论》（The Major Film Theories）、《电影理论概论》（Concepts of Film Theory）、《巴赞传》（André Bazin）、《悔恨的迷雾：法国古典电影的文化和敏感性》（Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film）等15本著作，最新力作为《电影是什么！》（What Cinema Is!）、《打开巴赞》（Opening Bazin）。