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Author:   Dana Och ,  Kirsten Strayer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781138549005

ISBN 10:   1138549002
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   05 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction. Part I: Spectres of History 1.Ghastly Transmissions: The Horror of Connectivity and the Transnational Flow of Fear Brenda S. Gardenour Walter 2. Desire for the Past: The Supernaturalization of Yatsuhaka-mura Chiho Nakagawa 3. High Stakes: The Vampire and the Double in Russian Cinema Greg Dolgopolov. Part II: Trans(gressing) Genre and Media 4. Dark Monarchs: Gothic Landscapes in Contemporary British Culture Stella Hockenhull 5. European Horror Games: Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ and the European Game Industry Kara Andersen and Karra Shimabukuro. Part III: Genre, History, and Horror 6. Art, Horror, and International Identity in 1970s Exploitation Films Kirsten Strayer 7. Hollywood's Humanity and Ethics Through the Lens of German Filmmakers in the 1930s Martina Witt-Jauch 8. ""The Country Bleeds with a Laugh"": Social Criticism Meets Horror Genre in José Mojica Marins’s At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul Diana Anselmo-Sequeira. Part IV: Biology and Bodies 9. Doctor de Sade: A Sadean Approach to Representations of Mad Science in Horror Cinema Lindsay Hallam 10. ""You Had Me at I'm Dead"": Porn, Horror, and the Fragmented Body Eric Shorey and Jen Hyland. Part V: Postcolonial Animals 11. ""The Sheep are Revolting"": Becoming-Animal in the Postcolonial Zombie Comedy Dana Och 12. Horrors of Anthropocentrism: ""Improved Animals"" on the Islands of Dr. Moreau Dale Hudson 13. Horror and Counter History: Profondo Carmesi Marcia Landy"

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'Interdisciplinary in scope, wide-ranging in subject matter, this volume serves as a model for contemporary ways of thinking about horror cinema. Summing Up: Highly recommended' - K J. Wetmore Jr., Loyola Marymount University in CHOICE, Vol. 51 No. 09

Author Information

 Dana Och is a Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She has recently published in Irish Cinema in International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, and in a previous anthology in Genre in Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism by Routledge Press. Kirsten Strayer is a Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. She has recently published in various anthologies and in Literature/Film Quarterly.

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