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  • - Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
     
    175,00 €

    This collection focuses on the social forces and ideologies-such as race, class, gender, religion, and the economy-that play a key role in constructing and framing fear, monsters, and the monstrous across a range of films and eras.

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    131,00 €

    Contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King's work, ranging from his earliest movies to the most recent, through a variety of lenses.

  • - Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling
     
    140,00 €

    Through an examination of texts from diverse periods and media, Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role that appropriation and intertextuality play in Gothic storytelling. Building on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation, the contributors demonstrate that the Gothic is a fundamentally hybrid genre.

  • - Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
     
    149,00 €

    This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.

  • von Erica Joan Dymond
    135,00 €

    Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the theme of grief as it is represented in both indie and mainstream films, including works such as Jennifer Kents watershed film The Babadook, Juan Antonio Bayonas award-sweeping El orfanato, Ari Asters genre-straddling Midsommar, and Lars von Triers visually stunning Melancholia. Analyzing depictions of grief ranging from the intimate grief of a small family to the collective grief of an entire nation, the essays illustrate how these works serve to provide unity, catharsis, andsometimeshealing.

  • von Simon Bacon
    151,00 €

    The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century explores the many aspects of the horror genre across thematics and media in the 2020s. Consisting of 21 original essays by experts in the field, this book examines how horror reveals the anxieties around our current cultural moment and how that might develop in the future.

  • von Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
    55,00 €

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