Stepford Daughters Av Johanna Isaacson

<p><b><span>In </span><em>Stepford Daughters</em><span>, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood </span><em>together</em><span>. </span></b></p><p><span>In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where oppressed people can understand, navigate and confront an increasingly ugly and horrifying world. </span><span>Films like </span><em>Hereditary</em><span> and </span><em>The Babadook</em><span> show women coming apart at the seams as the promises of both the family and waged work fail them. In </span><em>Get Out</em><span>, we see how poor women and women of color perform the invisible labor that holds up our society, experiencing domestic work as a kind of possession. In “coming of rage” films such as </span><em>Assassination Nation and Teeth</em><span>,</span><em> </em><span>we see the ways social reproduction leads to a futureless horizon. Robbed of their dreams but not their power to resist, these heroines emerge as the monsters and avengers we need.</span></p>