Awards

• Runner-up for Bram Stoker Award—Horror Writers Association 2018 (United States)

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Author:   Michele Brittany
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781476664057

ISBN 10:   1476664056
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   21 November 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Horror Made in America John Carpenter of Mars: Space Horror in the Films of John Carpenter (Ben Kooyman) The Cold, White Reproduction of the Same: A New Hypothesis About John Carpenter’s The Thing (Dario Altobelli) Meteor Madness: Lovecraftian Horror and Consumerism in the Battle for Small Town USA (Nicholas Diak) “It (never actually) came from outer space”: ­Earth-Origin Threats in Space Horror Films (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) Part Two: Time and Space in a Sea of ­Post-Modern Isolation Nonknowledge and Inner Experience: A ­Post-Modern Rhetoric of Space Horror (Gavin F. Hurley) Out of Space—Out of Time: Looking at the Factors of Time in Space Horror Movies (Juliane Schlag) We’re All Alone, Out Here: Isolation and Its Contribution to Space Horror in Film (Janet Joyce Holden) That Moon Is Romantic: Duncan Jones’s Dark Fairy Tale (Adam M. Crowley) Part Three: The Uncanny Body The Architecture of ­Sci-Fi Body Horror: Mechanical ­Building-Bodies and Organic Invasion from Deep Space to the Anthropocene (Brenda S. Gardenour Walter) Ghosts in the Machine: Emotion and Haunting in the Creation of the Irrational Robot (Casey Ratto) Part Four: The Devil Made Me Betwixt and Between: Magic, Science and the Devil’s Place in Outer Space (Andrew P. Williams) Under the Influence: Undead Planets and Vampiric Dreamworlds in Outer Space (Simon Bacon) Part Five: Play It Again or Rip It Off A “family of displaced figures”: Posthumanism and ­Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection (1997) (Charles W. Reick) Galaxies of Terror in a ­Knock-Off Universe: Atavism and the ­Rip-Off Body Horror of “Aliensploitation” Films (Jason Davis) Leprechaun 4 and Jason X: Camp, Paracinema and the Postmodern Sequel (Kevin Chabot) About the Contributors Index

Reviews

I found it an extremely interesting and sometimes enlightening book that touches on themes that you had not yet thought of. Highly recommended to those who want to delve deeper! - Out of this World Magazine

"""I found it an extremely interesting and sometimes enlightening book that touches on themes that you had not yet thought of. Highly recommended to those who want to delve deeper!"" - Out of this World Magazine"

Author Information

Michele Brittany is the book review editor for the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and is the co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Conference held in conjunction with Horror Writers Association’s annual Stokercon. She lives in Glendale, Arizona.

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