Transnational horror across visual media : fragmented bodies /
Och, Dana,1974-editor of compilation.
Strayer, Kirsten,1976-editor of compilation.
"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. Perhaps more than any other genre, horror is characterized by its ability to be simultaneously aware of the local while able to permeate national boundaries, to function on both regional and international registers. The essays here explore political models and allegories, questions of cult or subcultural media and their distribution practices, the relationship between regional or cultural networks, and the legibility of international horror iconography across distinct media. The book underscores how a discussion of contemporary international horror is not only about genre but about how genre can inform theories of visual cultures and the increasing permeability of their borders." -- Publisher website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Spectres of history. Ghastly transmissions: the horror of connectivity and the transnational flow of fear / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter -- Desire for the past: the supernaturalization of Yatsuhaka-mura / Chiho Nakagawa -- High stakes: the vampire and the double in Russian cinema / Greg Dolgopolov -- Trans(gressing) genre and media. Dark monarchs: gothic landscapes in contemporary British culture / Stella Hockenhull -- European horror games: Little Red Riding Hood's zombie BBQ and the European game industry / Kara Andersen and Karra Shimabukuro -- Genre, history, and horror. Art, horror, and international identity in 1970s exploitation films / Kirsten Strayer -- Hollywood's humanity and ethics through the lens of German filmmakers in the 1930s / Martina Witt-Jauch -- "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 -- Biology and bodies. Doctor de Sade: a Sadean approach to representations of mad science in horror cinema / Lindsay Hallam -- "You had me at I'm dead": porn, horror, and the fragmented body / Eric Shorey and Jen Hyand -- Postcolonial animals. "The sheep are revolting": becoming-animal in the postcolonial zombie comedy / Dana Och -- Horrors of anthropocent : "improved animals" on The islands of Dr. Moreau / Dale Hudson -- Horror and counter history: Profondo Carmesi / Marcia Landy.
"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. Perhaps more than any other genre, horror is characterized by its ability to be simultaneously aware of the local while able to permeate national boundaries, to function on both regional and international registers. The essays here explore political models and allegories, questions of cult or subcultural media and their distribution practices, the relationship between regional or cultural networks, and the legibility of international horror iconography across distinct media. The book underscores how a discussion of contemporary international horror is not only about genre but about how genre can inform theories of visual cultures and the increasing permeability of their borders." -- Publisher website.
Horror films