Jonathan Beever is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Central Florida and director of the UCF Center for Ethics.

“Beever has produced a timely and relevant exploration of the potentially unsettling condition of interdependence, demonstrating the value of filmic narratives in helping to shape and form the human condition. This collection brings together some of the greatest minds in film and cultural studies to broaden our understanding of cinema and the role it can play in our postmodern, anthropogenic society.”

• Foreword: Fear of Film: Cinema and Affective Entanglements, Kendall PhillipsIntroduction: The Horror of Relations, Jonathan BeeverSection 1: Familial RelationsChapter 1: Love and Horror: In Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother and Lee Chang-Dong’s Poetry, Eunah LeeChapter 2: Predatory Masculinity and Domestic Violence in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter, David BaumeisterChapter 3: “Will God Forgive Us?: Interdependence and Self-Transcendence in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed”, Vernon W. CisneySection 2: Social-Political Relations Chapter 4: The Dark Night Of Ecological Despair: Awaiting Reconsecration in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, Chandler Rogers and Tober CorriganChapter 5: The Horror of Interdependence: Climate Migration Anxiety by the Radical Right in Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja’s Aniara (2018) and Ari Aster’s Midsommar (2019), Sydney LaneChapter 6: Dissecting the Corrupted Body Politic: Fear, ‘Body Horror’ and the Failure of Relations, Josh Grant-YoungChapter 7: The Danger of Ecologi