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Bitten By The Demon Of Cinema: An Examination Of Women-Made Horror, Erica Tortolani
Bitten By The Demon Of Cinema: An Examination Of Women-Made Horror, Erica Tortolani
Doctoral Dissertations
Moving away from a discussion of horror films directed by men, “Bitten by the Demon of Cinema” those films—and, where appropriate, works across media, like on television, the Internet, and in the visual arts—created by women. As I explore in this dissertation, women-made horror has narrative, thematic, and stylistic qualities that borrow from the genre at large but are then transformed into a class of films all of their own. While seemingly diverse, they share enough commonalities to constitute a new mode of filmmaking altogether. The films and filmmakers that I have chosen in this dissertation are cases in point …