The Language of Rage
Alison Peirse
A dense, fast-paced multilingual video essay featuring excerpts from over ten international horror films by female directors and a soundtrack from _HEAVYLEG. Alison Peirse not only shows how female rage is portrayed, she also asks why women get angry in the first place.
Alison Peirse
Dr. Alison Peirse is a Professor of Film at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a world-renowned expert on horror film, and has been interviewed about horror in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Guardian. She is the author/editor of After Dracula: the 1930s Horror Film, Korean Horror Cinema, and her third book Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre won multiple international book awards and was the subject of a screening series at MoMA in August 2022.
