The philosophy of horror
By: edited by Thomas Fahy
Series: The philosophy of popular culture
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780813125732
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Horror and the Idea of Everyday Life: On Skeptical Threats in Psycho and The Birds / Philip J. Nickel; title: Through a Mirror, Darkly: Art-Horror as a Medium for Moral Reflection / Philip Tallon; title: The Justification of Torture-Horror: Retribution and Sadism in Saw, Hostel, and The Devil's Rejects / Jeremy Morris; title: Hobbes, Human Nature, and the Culture of American Violence in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood / Thomas Fahy; title: Making Their Presence Known: TV's Ghost-Hunter Phenomenon in a "Post-" World / Jessica O'Hara; title: The Vampire with a Soul: Angel and the Quest for Identity / Amy Kind; title: Ideological Formations of the Nuclear Family in The Hills Have Eyes / Lorena Russell; title: Zombies of the World, Unite: Class Struggle and Alienation in Land of the Dead / John Lutz; title: The Fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the Gothic Vision of The Black Cat / Paul A. Cantor; title: From Domestic Nightmares to the Nightmare of History: Uncanny Eruptions of Violence in King's and Kubrick's Versions of The Shining / John Lutz; title: "Hot with Rapture and Cold with Fear": Grotesque, Sublime, and Postmodern Transformations in Patrick Süskind's Perfume / Susann Cokal; title: Shock Value: A Deleuzean Encounter with James Purdy's Narrow rooms / Robert F. Gross; title: Making Monsters: The Philosophy of Reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universal Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein / Ann C. Hall; title: Kitsch and Camp and Things That Go Bump in the Night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (Horror) Movies / David MacGregor Johnston.