Horror; A Companion

ISBN-13: 9781787079199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 278 str.

Simon Bacon

Opis

What is Horror? This terrifying genre gives shape to our anxieties as humans, and as a society. Short, accessible essays offer an introduction to horror in old and new media, including film, literature, games and comics. Texts range from classics like Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to Jordan Peele's Get Out.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Murray Leeder: David Robert Mitchell's It Follows (2014) - The Limits of Knowledge - Gerry Canavan: Dan Trachtenberg's 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) - Inconceivable Horror - Xavier Aldana Reyes: Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza's [REC] (2007) - The Affective Approach to Horror - Darren Elliott-Smith: Brad Falchuk's American Horror Story (2011-present) - Queer Horror and Performative Pleasure - Lorna Jowett/Stacey Abbott: Victor Fresco's Santa Clarita Diet (2017-present) - Television Horror - Julia Round: Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key (2008-2013) - Horror Comics - Christian McCrea: Kojima Productions' P.T. (2014) - The Game of Horror - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' (1982) and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) - The Sound of Horror - Alexandra Heller-Nicholas: Joseph DeLage and Troy Wagner's Marble Hornets (2009-2014) - New Media Horror - Steve Jones: Spierig Brothers' Jigsaw (2017) - Torture Porn Rebooted? - Elizabeth Parker: Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) - Eco-horror - Thomas Fahy: The Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things (2016-present) - Horror and Nostalgia - Steffen Hantke: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014) - Science Fiction and Horror - Stacey Abbott: James DeMonaco's The Purge: Anarchy (2014) - Post-millennial Horror - Stephanie A. Graves: Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) - Smart Horror - Tracy Fahey: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's The League of Gentlemen (1999-2017) - Contemporary Folk Horror - Ian Olney: Julia Ducournau's Raw (2016) - Euro Horror - Katarzyna Ancuta: Sadako Yamamura and the Ring Cycle (1991-present) - Asian Horror - Cristina Santos: Mariana Enríquez's Things We Lost in the Fire (2009/2017) - Argentinian Horror - Gina Wisker: Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer: Stories (2015) - African American Horror - Gail de Vos/Kayla Lar-Son: Cowboy Smithx's The Candy Meister (2014) - First Nations Horror - Meheli Sen: Prosit Roy's Pari (2018) - Bollywood Horror - Dana Och: Jalmari Helander's Rare Exports (2003-2010) - Transnational Horror - Dara Downey: Laeta Kalogridis' Altered Carbon (2018-present) - Edgar Allan Poe - Carl H. Sederholm: Crafteon's Cosmic Reawakening (2017) - H. P. Lovecraft - Todd S. Garth: Damián Szifron's Relatos salvajes (2014) - Horacio Quiroga - Kristopher Woofter: Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl (2012) - Shirley Jackson - Simon Brown: Stephen King's Full Dark No Stars (2010) - Stephen King

O autorze

Simon Bacon has published many articles on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies and has co-edited books on various subjects including Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014), Seductive Concepts: Perspectives on Sins, Vices and Virtues (2014), Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity (2016), To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe (2017), Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media (2018) and The Gothic (2018). He has published two monographs, Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016) and Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen (2019), and is currently working on his third, Eco-Vampires: The Vampire as Environmentalist and Undead Eco-activist.