American horror film
Subtitle: the genre at the turn of the millennium
By: edited by Steffen Hantke.
Contributors: Hantke, Steffen, 1962-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; Brand: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781604734539; 9781604734546
Subjects: Horror films -- United States -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: They don't make 'em like they used to: on the rhetoric of crisis and the current state of American horror cinema / Steffen Hantke; title: Bloody America: critical reassessments of the trans/-national and of graphic violence. The American horror film? globalization and transnational U.S.-Asian genres / Christina Klein; title: A Parisian in Hollywood: ocular horror in the films of Alexandre Aja / Tony Perrello; title: "The pound of flesh which I demand": American horror cinema, gore, and the box office, 1998-2007 / Blair Davis and Kial Natale; title: A (post)modern house of pain: FearDotCom and the prehistory of the post-9/11 torture film / Reynold Humphries; title: The usual suspects: trends and transformations in the subgenres of American horror film. Teenage traumata: youth, affective politics, and the contemporary American horror film / Pamela Craig and Martin Fradley; title: Traumatic childhood now included: Todorov's Fantastic and the uncanny slasher remake / Andrew Patrick Nelson; title: Whither the serial killer movie? / Philip L. Simpson; title: A return to the graveyard: notes on the spiritual horror film / James Kendrick; title: Look back in horror: managing the canon of American horror film. Auteurdemmerung: David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the twilight of (North) American horror auteur / Craig Bernardini; title: How the masters of horror master their personae: self-fashioning at play in the masters of horror DVD extras / Ben Kooyman; title: "The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s": simulating auras and marketing nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse / Jay McRoy; title: Afterword. Memory, genre, and self-narrativization, or, why I should be a more content horror fan / David Church.