American Horror Fiction and Class, Simmons

Автор: David Simmons
Название: American Horror Fiction and Class
ISBN: 1137532793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137532794
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This study will appeal to scholars of American Studies, English literature, Media and Cultural Studies interested in class representations in the horror genre from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Автор: Brad Weismann
Название: Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film
ISBN: 149683321X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496833211
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Two horror films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2018, and one of them-The Shape of Water-won. Since 1990, the production of horror films has risen exponentially worldwide, and in 2013, horror films earned an estimated $400 million in ticket sales. Horror has long been the most popular film genre, and more horror movies have been made than any other kind. We need them. We need to be scared, to test ourselves, laugh inappropriately, scream, and flinch. We need to get through them and come out, blinking, still in one piece. Lost in the Dark: A World History of Horror Film is a straightforward history written for the general reader and student that can serve as a comprehensive entry-level reference work. The volume provides a general introduction to the genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. Starting with silent-era horror films and ending with 2020's The Invisible Man, Lost in the Dark looks at decades of horror movies. Author Brad Weismann covers such topics as the roots of horror in literature and art, monster movies, B-movies, the destruction of the American censorship system, international horror, torture porn, zombies, horror comedies, horror in the new millennium, and critical reception of modern horror. A sweeping survey that doesn't scrimp on details, Lost in the Dark is sure to satisfy both the curious and the completist.

Автор: Saggini Soccio Mic
Название: Transmedia creatures
ISBN: 1684480604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684480609
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Описание: On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative contributions investigate the afterlives of a novel taught in a disparate array of courses - Frankenstein disturbs and transcends boundaries, be they political, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and not least of media, ensuring its vibrant presence in contemporary popular culture. Transmedia Creatures highlights how cultural content is redistributed through multiple media, forms and modes of production (including user-generated ones from "below") that often appear synchronously and dismantle and renew established readings of the text, while at the same time incorporating and revitalizing aspects that have always been central to it. The authors engage with concepts, value systems and aesthetic-moral categories—among them the family, horror, monstrosity, diversity, education, risk, technology, the body—from a variety of contemporary approaches and highly original perspectives, which yields new connections. Ultimately, Frankenstein, as evidenced by this collection, is paradoxically enriched by the heteroglossia of preconceptions, misreadings, and overreadings that attend it, and that reveal the complex interweaving of perceptions and responses it generates. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Автор: Murphy Bernice M
Название: Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture
ISBN: 1137353716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137353719
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Описание: The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts.

Автор: Degiglio-Bellemare Mario, Woofter Kristopher
Название: Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade
ISBN: 1498503799 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498503792
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This book deconstructs persistent scholarly discourse by re-evaluating the historical, political, economic, and cultural factors of 1940s horror cinema to recover a decade of horror.

Автор: Roche, David,
Название: Making and remaking horror in the 1970s and 2000s :
ISBN: 1617039624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617039621
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more "disturbing", and thus better than the remakes. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.

Название: Gender and contemporary horror in film
ISBN: 178769898X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787698987
Издательство: Emerald
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Описание: This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.

Автор: Victoria McCollum
Название: Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear
ISBN: 1138498289 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138498280
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of contemporary American politics and the mutating role of traditional and new media in the era of Donald Trump`s Presidency of the US.

Автор: Picariello Damien K.
Название: The Politics of Horror
ISBN: 3030420175 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030420178
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Описание: The Politics of Horror features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields-political science, English, communication studies, and others-that explore the connections between horror and politics. In what ways might horror provide a useful lens through which to consider enduring questions in politics and political thought?

Автор: David Roche
Название: Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don`t They Do It Like They Used To?
ISBN: 1496802543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496802545
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better than the remakes. He assesses the qualities of movies, old and recast, according to criteria that include subtext, originality, and cohesion. With a methodology that combines a formalist and cultural studies approach, Roche sifts aspects of the American horror movie that have been widely addressed (class, the patriarchal family, gender, and the opposition between terror and horror) and those that have been somewhat neglected (race, the Gothic, style, and verisimilitude). Containing seventy-eight black and white illustrations, the book is grounded in a close comparative analysis of the politics and aesthetics of four of the most significant independent American horror movies of the 1970s--The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, Dawn of the Dead, and Halloween--and their twenty-first-century remakes. To what extent can the politics of these films be described as ""disturbing"" insomuch as they promote subversive subtexts that undermine essentialist perspectives? Do the politics of the film lie on the surface or are they wedded to the film's aesthetics? Early in the book, Roche explores historical contexts, aspects of identity (race, ethnicity, and class), and the structuring role played by the motif of the American nuclear family. He then asks to what extent these films disrupt genre expectations and attempt to provoke emotions of dread, terror, and horror through their representations of the monstrous and the formal strategies employed? In this inquiry, he examines definitions of the genre and its metafictional nature. Roche ends with a meditation on the extent to which the technical limitations of the horror films of the 1970s actually contribute to this ""disturbing"" quality. Moving far beyond the genre itself, Making and Remaking Horror studies the redux as a form of adaptation and enables a more complete discussion of the evolution of horror in contemporary American cinema.

Автор: Kyle William Bishop
Название: How Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century
ISBN: 0786495413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786495412
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "Zombie Renaissance," beginning in film and expanding into books, television, video games, theatre productions, phone apps, collectibles and toys. This critical examination of the 21st century zombie phenomenon explores how and why the public imagination has been overrun by the undead horde.

Автор: Tim Lanzendorfer
Название: Books of the Dead: Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature
ISBN: 1496819063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496819062
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Описание: The zombie has cropped up in many forms-in film, in television, and as a cultural phenomenon in zombie walks and zombie awareness months-but few books have looked at what the zombie means in fiction. Tim Lanzend?rfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories, and comics, and probing what the zombie represents in contemporary literature. Lanzend?rfer brings together the most recent critical discussion of zombies and applies it to a selection of key texts including Max Brooks's World War Z, Colson Whitehead's Zone One, Junot D?az's short story ""Monstro, "" Robert Kirkman's comic series The Walking Dead, and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Within the context of broader literary culture, Lanzend?rfer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right. Lanzend?rfer contends that what zombies do is less important than what becomes possible when they are around. Indeed, they seem less interesting as metaphors for the various ways the world could end than they do as vehicles for how the world might exist in a different and often better form.