Technology, Monstrosity, and Reproduction in Twenty-first Century Horror [electronic resource] /
Jackson, K.author.
Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.
Introduction: imagining the ends of horror and of humanity -- Meta-horror and simulation in the scream series and The cabin in the woods -- The image goes viral--virtual hauntings in The ring and Feardotcom -- The image as voracious eye in The Blair witch project, the paranormal activity series and cloverfield -- Memory, pregnancy, and technological archive in Dark water and The forgotten -- The end of patriarchy: defining the postmodern prometheus in Splice and Prometheus -- Conclusion: a new mythology for techno-humanity.
Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Culture.
Civilization—History.
Motion pictures—United States.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Communication.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural History.
American Cinema and TV.
Crime and Society.
Media Studies.