Journeys into Terror

Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focusing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of twenty scholarly volumes, many exploring the horror genre. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.

“The essays that make up this original book offer interesting and well-written arguments that touch on very different cultural and geographical areas of the globe, thus making this volume very attractive and appetizing to different audiences all over the world. This book will certainly be of interest to film studies scholars and students as well, fans of the various directors’ works and scholars of travel literature.”—Dr. Antonio Sanna, co-editor of the Lexington Books series Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors; Cultore della materia, Università degli Studi di Sassari

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van RiperI. Power and PrivilegeVengeance, Voyage, and Identity Deconstruction in Jordan Peele’sMichael C. Reiff“The line is broken”: The River and the Road to Cultural Extinction in Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente, 2015)Thomas PraschClashing Routes: Horror, Violence, and Resistance in Bacurau (2019)Alexandre Busko Valim and Rafaela Arienti BarbieriJourneys into Depravity in (Post)Colonial Australia: Colonizer versus Colonized Identity and “Otherness” in Wake in Fright and The NightingaleSean WoodardII. Journeys to HellHeterotopic Hell Ride on The Midnight Meat TrainAna DošenFacing the Inhuman on the Train to BusanSusan L. BoulangerFlights from Hell: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” and the Horrors of AviationLindsey Michael BancoThe Road Goes On Forever, and the Horror Never EndsCynthia J. MillerIII. Uncanny LandscapesIrradiated, Irrational, Irreclaimable: ­Post-Soviet Adventures in Chernobyl Diaries and Devil’s PassSara Jo PowellUncharted Waters: Island of Lost Souls (1932), Horror Island (1941), Isle of the Dead (1945)James J. Ward(Don’t) Go East: Eastern Europe as the Land of HorrorsBarbara PlotzNot Without My Terror: The Middle East as a Fertile Crescent of Western DreadMat Hardy and Sally TotmanIV. Postcards from the EdgeMidsommar’s Journey of Moral TerrorBenjamin Franz“We are not who we are”: (Re)Visiting Reflexive Horror Landscapes in The Cabin in the Woods and The Final GirlsCatherine Pugh“Any chance we’re ever gonna get out of here?” Southern Comfort and the Horrors of Southern (In)HospitalityKaren HorsleyV. Quests Fraught with Terror“Give a bad boy enough rope…”: Body Horror at Journey’s End in Disney’s PinocchioRichard J. LeskoskyOff the Edge of the Map: The DescentPhil Hobbins-WhiteOut of Time: Missed Connections and Existential Horrors in The Langoliers (1995)A. Bowdoin Van RiperAbout the ContributorsIndex