Our Fears Made Manifest

Ashley Jae Carranza teaches at both the high school and college levels in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her fiction appears in many journals including Flash Fiction Magazine, and her academic writing has been published in several collections.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Fears Made Manifest Through FilmAshley Jae CarranzaSectionIssues Presented in Individual FilmsPersonal and Societal Fears of Loss: At the Crossroads in the Narrative Maze of Pan’s LabyrinthMelanie Kreitler“He rode past me and kept on goin’. Never said nothin’ goin’ by”: The Silence of God in No Country for OldEric BrownParaNormative: Pressures on Sexuality Within Society in ParaNormanAshley Jae CarranzaMad Max and the Wasteland of CommodificationPhoebe WagnerA Silent Encounter with the Terrifying Other in John Krasinski’s A Quiet PlaceRichard LogsdonSection II: Fears Across Franchises“I always cry at weddings”: Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky and the Horror of the American Family at the MillenniumLisa Ellen Williams“It’s like you can pretend everything’s not quite the way it is”: Interrogating the Boundary Between Fiction and Reality in the Blair Witch FranchiseJessica ArmendarezTerrifying Odysseys and Pleasurable Detours: Sexuality and Xenophobia in Road Trip and EuroTripMica HilsonThe Lord of the Rings: Environmentalism and Essentialism in Middle-earth and the Western WorldEllen A. AhlnessDeadpool and the Complex “Crisis” of MasculinityJohn Quinn“Your government thanks you for your participation”: Schizophrenia, Late Capitalism and The PurgeLaura Henderson“I want your eye, man. I want those things you see through”: Exposing America’s “Post Racial Lie” in Get Out andMatthew Cormier and Amanda SpallacciSection III: Comparative Manifestations in Multiple FilmsThe Right to Be Forgotten: Confronting the Past in Post-Millennial CinemaJames Kenward“One is the loneliest”: Male Isolation, Rage and Violence in Millennium Transition FilmsHolly Lynn Baumgartner and Susan DuranThe Evolving Fear of the One Percent: From Eyes Wide Shut to First ReformedDonald McCarthyPocahontas Stories, or Why Americans Vote for War Before Voting AgainstJayson BakerTragedy, Heroes and the American Imaginary: Blockbuster Conflict Film from 2006 to 2016Adriana MariellaCategorize Your Powers: Film Adaptations of Dystopian Young Adult Literature in The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Darkest MindsAmy CumminsAbout the ContributorsIndex