“…Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented-notably the slasher movie's "final girls"-as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Andrew Hageman -- An ecophilosophy of the moving image : cinema as anthrobiogeomorphic machine / Adrian Ivakhiv -- Penguins are good to think with : wildlife films, the imaginary shaping of nature, and environmental politics / Luis Vivanco -- Working with animals : regarding companion species in documentary film / Jennifer Ladino -- Beyond fluidity : a cultural history of cinema under water / Nicole Starosielski -- Nature writes the screenplays : commercial wildlife films and ecological entertainment / Claire Molloy -- Hollywood and climate change / Stephen Rust -- Appreciating the views : filming nature in Into the wild, Grizzly man, and Into the West / Pat Brereton -- Sympathy for the devil : the cannibalistic hillbilly in 1970s rural slasher films / Carter Soles -- Environmental film festivals : beginning explorations at the intersections of film festival studies and ecocinema studies / Salma Monani -- Everyone knows this is nowhere : data visualization and ecocriticism / Sean Cubitt…”

“…Allein der Gedanke an seine Hauptfigur Freddy Krueger jagt noch immer vielen Zuschauern einen Schauer über den Rücken - und zaubert eingeweihten Slasher-Fans ein Grinsen ins Gesicht. Katharina Rein unterzieht diesen unbestrittenen Genre-Klassiker einer intensiven Lektüre, in der sie den zentralen Momenten der Störung nachspürt. …”

“…Explaining the defining elements, characteristics and tropes of genres from romantic comedy to slasher horror, and using examples from classic films like Casablanca alongside recent blockbuster franchises like Harry Potter, Selbo offers a compelling and readable analysis of film genre in its written form. …”