Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives. This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the ""geographies of evil"" and how our notions of…mehr
Since ancient times, explorers and adventurers have captured popular imagination with their frightening narratives of travels gone wrong. Usually, these stories heavily feature the exotic or unknown, and can transform any journey into a nightmare. Stories of such horrific happenings have a long and rich history that stretches from folktales to contemporary media narratives. This work presents eighteen essays that explore the ways in which these texts reflect and shape our fear and fascination surrounding travel, posing new questions about the ""geographies of evil"" and how our notions of ""terrible places"" and their inhabitants change over time. The volume's five thematic sections offer new insights into how power, privilege, uncanny landscapes, misbegotten quests, hellish commutes and deadly vacations can turn our travels into terror.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focusing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of twenty scholarly volumes, many exploring the horror genre. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha's Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper I. Power and Privilege Vengeance, Voyage, and Identity Deconstruction in Jordan Peele's Michael C. Reiff "The line is broken": The River and the Road to Cultural Extinction in Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente, 2015) Thomas Prasch Clashing Routes: Horror, Violence, and Resistance in Bacurau (2019) Alexandre Busko Valim and Rafaela Arienti Barbieri Journeys into Depravity in (Post)Colonial Australia: Colonizer versus Colonized Identity and "Otherness" in Wake in Fright and The Nightingale Sean Woodard II. Journeys to Hell Heterotopic Hell Ride on The Midnight Meat Train Ana Doen Facing the Inhuman on the Train to Busan Susan L. Boulanger Flights from Hell: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and the Horrors of Aviation Lindsey Michael Banco The Road Goes On Forever, and the Horror Never Ends Cynthia J. Miller III. Uncanny Landscapes Irradiated, Irrational, Irreclaimable: Post-Soviet Adventures in Chernobyl Diaries and Devil's Pass Sara Jo Powell Uncharted Waters: Island of Lost Souls (1932), Horror Island (1941), Isle of the Dead (1945) James J. Ward (Don't) Go East: Eastern Europe as the Land of Horrors Barbara Plotz Not Without My Terror: The Middle East as a Fertile Crescent of Western Dread Mat Hardy and Sally Totman IV. Postcards from the Edge Midsommar's Journey of Moral Terror Benjamin Franz "We are not who we are": (Re)Visiting Reflexive Horror Landscapes in The Cabin in the Woods and The Final Girls Catherine Pugh "Any chance we're ever gonna get out of here?" Southern Comfort and the Horrors of Southern (In)Hospitality Karen Horsley V. Quests Fraught with Terror "Give a bad boy enough rope...": Body Horror at Journey's End in Disney's Pinocchio Richard J. Leskosky Off the Edge of the Map: The Descent Phil Hobbins-White Out of Time: Missed Connections and Existential Horrors in The Langoliers (1995) A. Bowdoin Van Riper About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper I. Power and Privilege Vengeance, Voyage, and Identity Deconstruction in Jordan Peele's Michael C. Reiff "The line is broken": The River and the Road to Cultural Extinction in Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente, 2015) Thomas Prasch Clashing Routes: Horror, Violence, and Resistance in Bacurau (2019) Alexandre Busko Valim and Rafaela Arienti Barbieri Journeys into Depravity in (Post)Colonial Australia: Colonizer versus Colonized Identity and "Otherness" in Wake in Fright and The Nightingale Sean Woodard II. Journeys to Hell Heterotopic Hell Ride on The Midnight Meat Train Ana Doen Facing the Inhuman on the Train to Busan Susan L. Boulanger Flights from Hell: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and the Horrors of Aviation Lindsey Michael Banco The Road Goes On Forever, and the Horror Never Ends Cynthia J. Miller III. Uncanny Landscapes Irradiated, Irrational, Irreclaimable: Post-Soviet Adventures in Chernobyl Diaries and Devil's Pass Sara Jo Powell Uncharted Waters: Island of Lost Souls (1932), Horror Island (1941), Isle of the Dead (1945) James J. Ward (Don't) Go East: Eastern Europe as the Land of Horrors Barbara Plotz Not Without My Terror: The Middle East as a Fertile Crescent of Western Dread Mat Hardy and Sally Totman IV. Postcards from the Edge Midsommar's Journey of Moral Terror Benjamin Franz "We are not who we are": (Re)Visiting Reflexive Horror Landscapes in The Cabin in the Woods and The Final Girls Catherine Pugh "Any chance we're ever gonna get out of here?" Southern Comfort and the Horrors of Southern (In)Hospitality Karen Horsley V. Quests Fraught with Terror "Give a bad boy enough rope...": Body Horror at Journey's End in Disney's Pinocchio Richard J. Leskosky Off the Edge of the Map: The Descent Phil Hobbins-White Out of Time: Missed Connections and Existential Horrors in The Langoliers (1995) A. Bowdoin Van Riper About the Contributors Index
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