Research in Horror Studies – serie
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Dark Forces at Work
Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
Av Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Häftad, 2023
518 kr
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Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue …
Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010 to 2020
Readings in a Mutating Tradition
Inbunden, 2023
1396 kr
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Transnational Zombie Cinema, 2010 to 2020: Readings in a Mutating Tradition examines selected films produced outside the United States in the second decade of the millennial zombie renaissance, following the global effects of the Great Recession. These readings analyze how the films adapt the …
Disney Gothic
Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse
Av Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Inbunden, 2024
1356 kr
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Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of …
Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic
Tell Fear No
Inbunden, 2023
1072 kr
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While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star Trek Discovery draws on an even older gothic formula, namely the Female Gothic of Ann Radcliffe’s …
Ethics of Horror
Spectral Alterity in Twenty-First-Century Horror Film
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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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 …
Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust
Inbunden, 2024
1285 kr
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Since its 1980 release, the Italian horror film Cannibal Holocaust has shocked viewers and provoked censors with its graphic imagery and unrelenting nihilism. Following a summary of the story and the controversy over its release, Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust examines the film’s relevance to …
Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust
Häftad, 2026
417 kr
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Since its 1980 release, the Italian horror film Cannibal Holocaust has shocked viewers and provoked censors with its graphic imagery and unrelenting nihilism. Following a summary of the story and the controversy over its release, Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust examines the film’s relevance to …
Future Folk Horror
Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2023
1356 kr
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Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan …
Toxic Nostalgia on Screen
Undead Memory in the Twenty-First Century
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2024
1427 kr
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Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present, can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a …
Criminological Understandings of Horror Films
Reel Fear
Av Krista S. Gehring, Stacie Merken m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1285 kr
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This book examines horror films through a critical criminological lens. Each chapter considers how the genre impacts audiences and their understanding of topics like place, crime, and identity.
Catholic Horror on Television
Haunting Faith
Av Ralph Beliveau, Laura Bolf-Beliveau m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1214 kr
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Catholic Horror on Television: Haunting Faith explores the significant intersection of horror media and the Catholic Church. Religious themes enjoy a long history in film and television, with narratives featuring the supernatural, science fiction, and horror making use of Roman Catholicism in …
Horror in the Early Films of Roger Corman, 1955–1964
Av Sue Matheson
Inbunden, 2027
1426 kr
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Roger Corman – an influential indie filmmaker with a penchant for producing and directing hundreds of entertaining, literate, and campy B-movies – is now most recognized for his early low-budget, cult-classic horror movies. Adapting assembly-line methods learned during his engineer training to make …
Anthropocene and the Undead
Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2022
1356 kr
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The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both …
Anthropocene and the Undead
Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
Av Simon Bacon
Häftad, 2024
461 kr
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The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both …
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema
Screening Loss
Inbunden, 2022
1285 kr
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Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the theme of grief as it is represented in both indie and mainstream films, including works such as …
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema
Screening Loss
Häftad, 2025
432 kr
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Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the theme of grief as it is represented in both indie and mainstream films, including works such as …
Violence in the Films of Stephen King
Av Tony Magistrale, Michael J. Blouin
Inbunden, 2021
1248 kr
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In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canonto his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence …
Violence in the Films of Stephen King
Av Tony Magistrale, Michael J. Blouin
Häftad, 2023
489 kr
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In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canonto his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence …
Gothic Mash-Ups
Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling
Inbunden, 2022
1396 kr
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Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, …
Gothic Mash-Ups
Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling
Häftad, 2023
530 kr
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Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors examine crossover fictions, multi-source film and comic book adaptations, …
Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century
Av Simon Bacon
Inbunden, 2023
1356 kr
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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but …
Japanese Horror Culture
Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
Av Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Subashish Bhattacharjee m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1396 kr
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Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the emergence of the J-horror phenomenon in the late 1990s with the opening and critical success of films …
Japanese Horror Culture
Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
Av Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Subashish Bhattacharjee m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
530 kr
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Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the emergence of the J-horror phenomenon in the late 1990s with the opening and critical success of films …
Supranational Horrors
Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968
Inbunden, 2022
1289 kr
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Supranational Horrors: Italian and Spanish Horror Cinema since 1968 moves beyond national cinema discourse in considering the horror production of two Southern European countries, Italy and Spain. Rui M. Trindade Oliveira examines cultural elements that films from these nations share, arguing that …
Supernatural Mothers and Wombs of Discontent
Exploring Horror's Deviant Reproductions
Inbunden, 2026
1285 kr
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An interdisciplinary and international roster of contributors discuss the womb and the mother as separate sources of supernatural reproduction in horror media, arguing that the alchemy of pregnancy and birth warrants a sustained examination of supernatural motherhood in diverse contexts.From …
