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Author:   Ashley Jae Carranza
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781476679310

ISBN 10:   1476679312
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   24 February 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: Our Fears Made Manifest Through Film Ashley Jae Carranza Section Issues Presented in Individual Films Personal and Societal Fears of Loss: At the Crossroads in the Narrative Maze of Pan’s Labyrinth Melanie Kreitler “He rode past me and kept on goin’. Never said nothin’ goin’ by”: The Silence of God in No Country for Old Eric Brown ParaNormative: Pressures on Sexuality Within Society in ParaNorman Ashley Jae Carranza Mad Max and the Wasteland of Commodification Phoebe Wagner A Silent Encounter with the Terrifying Other in John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Richard Logsdon Section II: Fears Across Franchises “I always cry at weddings”: Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky and the Horror of the American Family at the Millennium Lisa Ellen Williams “It’s like you can pretend everything’s not quite the way it is”: Interrogating the Boundary Between Fiction and Reality in the Blair Witch Franchise Jessica Armendarez Terrifying Odysseys and Pleasurable Detours: Sexuality and Xenophobia in Road Trip and EuroTrip Mica Hilson The Lord of the Rings: Environmentalism and Essentialism in Middle-earth and the Western World Ellen A. Ahlness Deadpool and the Complex “Crisis” of Masculinity John Quinn “Your government thanks you for your participation”: Schizophrenia, Late Capitalism and The Purge Laura Henderson “I want your eye, man. I want those things you see through”: Exposing America’s “Post Racial Lie” in Get Out and Matthew Cormier and Amanda Spallacci Section III: Comparative Manifestations in Multiple Films The Right to Be Forgotten: Confronting the Past in Post-Millennial Cinema James Kenward “One is the loneliest”: Male Isolation, Rage and Violence in Millennium Transition Films Holly Lynn Baumgartner and Susan Duran The Evolving Fear of the One Percent: From Eyes Wide Shut to First Reformed Donald McCarthy Pocahontas Stories, or Why Americans Vote for War Before Voting Against Jayson Baker Tragedy, Heroes and the American Imaginary: Blockbuster Conflict Film from 2006 to 2016 Adriana Mariella Categorize Your Powers: Film Adaptations of Dystopian Young Adult Literature in The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Darkest Minds Amy Cummins About the Contributors Index

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Ashley Jae Carranza teaches at both the high school and college levels in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her fiction appears in many journals including Flash Fiction Magazine, and her academic writing has been published in several collections.

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