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In this visionary book Erin Y. Huang lays out a new epistemology of the political, cultural, and affective present while gesturing toward desirable futures. This book will galvanize the study of Chinese cinema and interdisciplinary studies of the urban; it will be of unique interest to all those across the humanities who are striving to decipher the logics of the global, neoliberal present. Like no other book, Urban Horror makes the affective, political, and material contours of the contemporary Asian city available to social theory. A vitally innovative work. -- Arnika Fuhrmann, author of * Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema * What is 'horror' in the contemporary world? With reference to numerous interesting Chinese-language films, Erin Y. Huang argues that horror is a morphing assemblage of sociohistorical forces, one that creates a disjuncture between a perceived external reality and an internal frame of comprehension. An admirably timely statement on the often hypermedial-and horrific-performativity of urban public sentiments, in post-socialist China as in EuroAmerica and beyond. -- Rey Chow, author of * Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility *

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Erin Y. Huang is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

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