Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies

ISBN-13: 9781138549005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 268 str.

Dana Och; Kirsten Strayer

Opis

This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts.

Recenzje

'Interdisciplinary in scope, wide-ranging in subject matter, this volume serves as a model for contemporary ways of thinking about horror cinema. Summing Up: Highly recommended' - K J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount University in CHOICE, Vol. 51 No. 09

Spis treści

Introduction.  Part I: Spectres of History  1.Ghastly Transmissions: The Horror of Connectivity and the Transnational Flow of Fear Brenda S. Gardenour Walter  2. Desire for the Past: The Supernaturalization of Yatsuhaka-mura Chiho Nakagawa  3. High Stakes: The Vampire and the Double in Russian Cinema Greg Dolgopolov.  Part II: Trans(gressing) Genre and Media  4. Dark Monarchs: Gothic Landscapes in Contemporary British Culture Stella Hockenhull  5. European Horror Games: Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ and the European Game Industry Kara Andersen and Karra Shimabukuro.  Part III: Genre, History, and Horror  6. Art, Horror, and International Identity in 1970s Exploitation Films Kirsten Strayer  7. Hollywood's Humanity and Ethics Through the Lens of German Filmmakers in the 1930s Martina Witt-Jauch  8. "The Country Bleeds with a Laugh": Social Criticism Meets Horror Genre in José Mojica Marins’s At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Diana Anselmo-Sequeira.  Part IV: Biology and Bodies  9. Doctor de Sade: A Sadean Approach to Representations of Mad Science in Horror Cinema Lindsay Hallam  10. "You Had Me at I'm Dead": Porn, Horror, and the Fragmented Body Eric Shorey and Jen Hyland.  Part V: Postcolonial Animals  11. "The Sheep are Revolting": Becoming-Animal in the Postcolonial Zombie Comedy Dana Och  12. Horrors of Anthropocentrism: "Improved Animals" on the Islands of Dr. Moreau Dale Hudson  13. Horror and Counter History: Profondo Carmesi Marcia Landy

O autorze

 Dana Och is a Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She has recently published in Irish Cinema in International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, and in a previous anthology in Genre in Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism by Routledge Press.

Kirsten Strayer is a Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. She has recently published in various anthologies and in Literature/Film Quarterly.