Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203), filmography (pages 205-207), and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the "post"- era: defining post-patriarchy and post-feminism -- Impossible womanhood and post-feminist hegemony in Bertino's The strangers and Peirce's Carrie -- Like son, like father: tracing the male possession narrative through Shyamalan's The sixth sense, Koepp's Stir of echoes and Wan's Insidious and Insidious:chapter 2 -- Family horror, media saturation, and the phenomenon of true crime in Derrickson's Sinister -- Returning to the archaic mother: Collet-Serra's Orphan, Muschietti's Mama, and Flanagan's Oculus -- Conclusion.
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