Linnie Blake

The wounds of nations

Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 333g
• ISBN-13: 9780719075940
• ISBN-10: 0719075947
• Artikelnr.: 34742905

Autorenporträt

Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film, Manchester Metropolitan University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinema I German and
Japanese horror - the traumatic legacy of world war two II The traumatised
1970s and the threat of apocalypse now III: From Vietnam to 9/11: the
Orientalist other and the American poor white IV: New Labour new horrors -
the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity Conclusions Bibliography
Filmography Index