Transnational Horror Across Visual Media

Fragmented Bodies
Herausgeber: Och, Dana; Strayer, Kirsten

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 227mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781138549005
• ISBN-10: 1138549002
• Artikelnr.: 57055605

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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