The wounds of nations
Subtitle: horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity
By: Linnie Blake.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780719075933
Subjects: Horror films -- History and criticism
Description: This title deploys trauma theory in its readings of recent horror cinema - offering an entirely new perspective on horror and providing trauma theory with a whole new field of filmic enquiry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring; title: The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. 'Consumed out of the good land' : George A. Romero's horror of the 1970s ; All hail to the serial killer : America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond; title: From Vietnam to 9/11 : the orientalist other and the American poor white. 'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11; title: New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. Zombies, dog men and dragon : generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium.