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girls on film!

where gender and film studies intersect

(disclaimer: i haven’t read all of these but plan to, always open to feedback from those who have read these or have other suggestions!)

Girls on Film: The Complete History of the Women Who Broke Barriers and Redefined Roles

The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis

Girls on Film: The Complete History of the Women Who Broke Barriers and Redefined Roles

The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema (Theories of Representation and Difference)

Nonfiction: The Horror Genre

by SkywardStrange

Nonfiction books about the mechanics, psychology, and other aspects of the horror genre.

Recommendations are always welcome!

The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief

Where Nightmares Come From

Hauntology: Ghosts of Futures Past

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula

The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief

Where Nightmares Come From

pop culture non-fiction

... or pop culture leaning.

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror

Horror Nonfiction

by violet.booklover

Books about horror media! Nonfiction, including creative nonfiction like poetry.

The Final Girl How Horror Movie’s Made Me A Better Feminist

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

Behind the Horror: True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies

Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

The Final Girl How Horror Movie’s Made Me A Better Feminist

Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

Horror Academia

by slimshaedy92

Books about the horror genre from an academic lens because we need more of those!!

Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

Gothic dreams and nightmares

Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation (War Culture)

Monsters in the closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film)

Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

Gothic dreams and nightmares

feminist study

by librarygirlfriend

feminist theory of all levels that are part of my tbr!!

Women, Race & Class

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Women, Race & Class

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

non-fiction tbr

my personal non-fiction tbr list

Want

The Argonauts

Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size

Want

The Argonauts

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