Horror Studies – serie
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67 produkter
Queer for Fear
Horror Film and the Queer Spectator
Inbunden, 2023
884 kr
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Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror’s queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and figurative. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary empirical study of the LGBTQ+ community not only offers the …
Re-envisaging the First Age of Cinematic Horror, 1896-1934
Quanta of Fear
Häftad, 2018
389 kr
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This is a ground-breaking exploration that runs generally against the critical grain in identifying a burgeoning production of films of fear and horror before the admission of the horror film genre per se. It is a study that reveals and emphasises the formative and innovative power of film, from …
Re-envisaging the First Age of Cinematic Horror, 1896-1934
Quanta of Fear
E-bok, 2018
1217 kr
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This is a ground-breaking exploration that runs generally against the critical grain in identifying a burgeoning production of films of fear and horror before the admission of the horror film genre per se. It is a study that reveals and emphasises the formative and innovative power of film, from …
Re-envisaging the First Age of Cinematic Horror, 1896-1934
Quanta of Fear
E-bok, 2018
397 kr
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This is a ground-breaking exploration that runs generally against the critical grain in identifying a burgeoning production of films of fear and horror before the admission of the horror film genre per se. It is a study that reveals and emphasises the formative and innovative power of film, from …
Videogames and Horror
From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!
Häftad, 2019
475 kr
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Videogames are full of horrors – and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame scholarship. This book engages with the research of prominent scholars across the humanities to explore …
Videogames and Horror
From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!
E-bok, 2019
1318 kr
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Videogames are full of horrors – and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame scholarship. This book engages with the research of prominent scholars across the humanities to explore …
Videogames and Horror
From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!
E-bok, 2019
430 kr
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Videogames are full of horrors – and of horror, a facet of the media that has been largely overlooked by the academic community in terms of lengthy studies in the fast-growing field of videogame scholarship. This book engages with the research of prominent scholars across the humanities to explore …
Horror and Religion
New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality
Av Eleanor Beal, Jonathan Greenaway m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
421 kr
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Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and …
Horror and Religion
New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality
Av Eleanor Beal, Jon Greenaway
E-bok, 2019
1290 kr
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Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and …
Horror and Religion
New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality
Av Eleanor Beal, Jon Greenaway
E-bok, 2019
440 kr
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Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and …
Masks in Horror Cinema
Eyes Without Faces
E-bok, 2019
1217 kr
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Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors …
Masks in Horror Cinema
Eyes Without Faces
E-bok, 2019
406 kr
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Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors …
New Queer Horror Film and Television
Av Darren Elliott-Smith, John Edgar Browning
E-bok, 2020
1217 kr
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This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed ‘New Queer Horror’. This sub-genre designates horror crafted by directors/producers who identify as gay, bi, queer or transgendered, or …
New Queer Horror Film and Television
Av Darren Elliott-Smith, John Edgar Browning
E-bok, 2020
406 kr
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This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of film and television termed ‘New Queer Horror’. This sub-genre designates horror crafted by directors/producers who identify as gay, bi, queer or transgendered, or …
New Blood
Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror
Av Eddie Falvey, Jonathan Wroot m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
381 kr
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The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the advancement of subgenres that reflect new and …
New Blood
Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror
Av Eddie Falvey, Jonathan Wroot m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
1217 kr
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The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the advancement of subgenres that reflect new and …
Stephen King and American Politics
Häftad, 2021
421 kr
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From The Long Walk to The Outsider, Stephen King's output reflects the major political concerns of the previous fifty years. This book, Stephen King and American Politics, is the first sustained study of the complex ways in which King's texts speak to their unique political moments. By exploring …
Embodying Contagion
The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse
Av Sandra Becker, Megen de Bruin-Mole m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
486 kr
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OPEN ACCESSFrom Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts; vocabulary and metaphors …
Global TV Horror
Av Lorna Jowett, Stacey Abbott
Häftad, 2021
439 kr
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The Horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this more apparent than on television as explored in this …
Global TV Horror
Av Lorna Jowett, Stacey Abbott
E-bok, 2021
1217 kr
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The Horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this more apparent than on television as explored in this …
Global TV Horror
Av Lorna Jowett, Stacey Abbott
E-bok, 2021
406 kr
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The Horror genre has become one of the most popular genres of TV drama with the global success and fandom surrounding The Walking Dead, Supernatural and Stranger Things. Horror has always had a truly international reach, and nowhere is this more apparent than on television as explored in this …
Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema
Häftad, 2021
412 kr
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As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity - combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres - as a way to think about films through a global and local framework. Taking the British horror resurgence of …
Transnationalism and Genre Hybridity in New British Horror Cinema
E-bok, 2021
440 kr
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As an intervention in conversations on transnationalism, film culture and genre theory, this book theorises transnational genre hybridity – combining tropes from foreign and domestic genres – as a way to think about films through a global and local framework. Taking the British horror resurgence of …
Theatre and the Macabre
Av Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Meredith Conti
Häftad, 2022
369 kr
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The 'macabre', as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre - and more broadly, performance - for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and aesthetic grotesquerie, and its sensory-rich environments, macabre theatre invites artists and audiences …
Theorising the Contemporary Zombie
Contextual Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Av Scott Hamilton, Conor Heffernan
Häftad, 2022
421 kr
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Zombies have become an increasingly popular object of research in academic studies and, of course, in popular media. Over the past decade, they have been employed to explain mathematical equations, vortex phenomena in astrophysics, the need for improved laws, issues within higher education, and …
Blumhouse Productions
The New House of Horror
Av Mathias Clasen, Todd K. Platts m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
381 kr
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Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse’s cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic trends across Blumhouse films, such as the use of found footage, haunted bodies/haunted houses, and …
Blumhouse Productions
The New House of Horror
Av Mathias Clasen, Todd K. Platts m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
1217 kr
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Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse’s cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic trends across Blumhouse films, such as the use of found footage, haunted bodies/haunted houses, and …
Blumhouse Productions
The New House of Horror
Av Mathias Clasen, Todd K. Platts m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
406 kr
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Blumhouse Productions is the first book that systematically examines the corpus of Blumhouse’s cinematic output. Individual chapters written by emerging and established scholars consider thematic trends across Blumhouse films, such as the use of found footage, haunted bodies/haunted houses, and …
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture
Teen Witches
Häftad, 2022
412 kr
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In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long reflected shifting societal attitudes towards the teenage demographic. At the same time, teen witches have …
Folk Horror
New Global Pathways
Häftad, 2023
486 kr
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While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment. This study sets out to rethink the …
