Ethics of Horror

Name: Ethics of Horror
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Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First-Century Horror Film

AvMichael J. Burke

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien Research in Horror Studies

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Beskrivning

The Ethics of Horror: Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First Century Horror Film examines the theme of spectral haunting in contemporary American horror cinema through the lens of ethical responsibility. Arguing that moral obligation can manifest as terror to the complacent self, the text extracts this dimension of ethics in twenty-first century horror films. Drawing on the ethical theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, which posit the asymmetrical obligation of the self to the other, Michael Burke highlights how recent horror films portray spectral antagonists as ethical others that hound protagonists and summon them to an accountability that they can neither evade nor ever completely fulfill. Burke observes the resulting destabilization of notions of ethical responsibility and justice in a variety of contemporary horror subgenres, including technohorror, haunted house and zombie films.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-06
Mått:158 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Research in Horror Studies
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666910841

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Michael J. Burke is associate professor of philosophy at St. Joseph’s University, New York, and director of the honors program of its Brooklyn campus.

Recensioner i media

Through the unlikely pairing of Derridean and Levinasian ethics and popular horror films of the twenty-first century, Burke offers a fresh take on familiar horror tropes like the haunted house, the ghost story, and the zombie apocalypse, arguing that the more recent iterations of these themes highlight Levinas’ stance that ethical responsibility to the other is “impossible to fulfill” and suggest that “restitution and reparation” are no longer possible. This work is both provocative and surprisingly poignant. Indeed, it “stirs reflection over why moral conscience should remain unsettled, especially in a time where the recognition of others’ suffering . . . seems blinkered.”

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Haunted by the Other: The Persecutory PhantomChapter Two: Technohorror: Negotiating the Paradoxes of SpectralityChapter Three: Haunted Hostage: Spectral Election and Toxic SurveillanceChapter Four: Zombie Alterity