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Matthew W. Jarvis - Monsters in God’s Country, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Monsters in God’s Country

Av Matthew W. Jarvis

Del i serien Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

274 kr

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At the end of the Cold War, America no longer had the cultural demon it had terrorized itself with for decades. In 1992, the void was quickly filled by the culture wars and free-market economic policies that would forever change American society. Horror movies naturally responded to this change. Monsters in God’s Country argues that the union of politically driven policy and markets created a new breed of horror that still haunts the United States. Moving away from traditional psychoanalytical interpretations, this volume shows how national fear was manufactured and commodified by the American system itself. Monsters in the 1990s did not hide under the bed, in the closet, or in the shadows. Instead, they were the brokers of power who took public office, ran large companies, commanded the military, and made the most money. Through incisive case studies of four films—Needful Things, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ravenous, and American Psycho—author Matthew W. Jarvis shows how morality was rewritten around cultural value and how the system others its victims in its cruelest acts of monstrosity. Monsters in God’s Country reclaims what has been characterized as a "lost decade" of horror by showing that the movies were diagnostics of active systemic decay. These films tell not a story about end-of-millennium America, but they offer a horrifying explanation about the monsters of the present day.
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Matthew W. Jarvis is a scholar of visual culture and media studies as well as an honors fellow at Columbus State University. His research focuses on the intersection of horror cinema, political theory, and American institutions. He is also host of the award-winning academic series Spooky Evenings.

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"A unique approach to nineties horror cinema and one the discourse needs. Jarvis finds links between the horror onscreen and the issues haunting America after the end of the Cold War, compelling readers to rethink these films and the period that produced them as much more evocative, provocative, and meaningful than popularly considered." - Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., author of Post-9/11 Horror in American Cinema and Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters"A defining work in the field of nineties horror, Monsters in God’s Country recasts the decade as a space where horror reflects and refracts the social issues that seeded the ground for our contemporary political landscape. If horror movies are a window into the anxieties of a particular cultural moment, Jarvis demonstrates, over and over again in new ways, what that actually means." - Brandon R. Grafius, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters

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