Horror international / edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-

Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11-

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Physical Description:

xi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2005]

Contents:

I The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Horror Exchange

1 Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States / Raiford Guins 15

2 Importation/Mexploitation, or, How a Crime-Fighting, Vampire-Slaying Mexican Wrestler Almost Found Himself in an Italian Sword-and-Sandals Epic / Andrew Syder, Dolores Tierney 33

3 The Dialogue with American Popular Culture in Two German Films about the Serial Killer / Steffen Hantke 56

II Haunting Histories and Regional Gothics

4 The Return of History as Horror: Onibaba and the Atomic Bomb / Jyotsna Kapur 83

5 "Terror Australis": Areas of Horror in the Australian Cinema / Jonathan Rayner 98

6 Kiwi Gothic: New Zealand's Cinema of a Perilous Paradise / Ian Conrich 114

7 Irish Horror: Neil Jordan and the Anglo-Irish Gothic / Brian McIlroy 128

8 Thailand Haunted: The Power of the Past in the Contemporary Thai Horror Film / Adam Knee 141

III Horror in the Social Realm

9 The Spanish Horror Film as Subversive Text: Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino / Andrew Willis 163

10 Genre Bending and Gender Bonding: Masculinity and Repression in Dutch "Thriller" Cinema / Steven Jay Schneider, Kevin W. Sweeney 180

11 Hong Kong Social Horror: Tragedy and Farce in Category 3 / Tony Williams 203

12 Beyond Dracula and Ceausescu: Phenomenology of Horror in Romanian Cinema / Christina Stojanova 220

13 Snapping Up Schoolgirls: Legitimation Crisis in Recent Canadian Horror / Suzie Young 235

IV Contested Horror Traditions

14 Beyond the Genre Formula: Implicit Horror in the Films of Jan Svankmajer / Jan Uhde 259

15 Egypt: A Cinema without Horror? / Viola Shafik 273

16 Burn, Witch, Burn: A First Look at the Scandinavian Horror Film / Rebecca A. Umland, Samuel J. Umland 290

17 Man Bites Dog and the Critical Reception of Belgian Horror (in) Cinema / Ernest Mathijs 315

18 Exorcising the Devil: Russian Cinema and Horror / Josephine Woll 336.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814331009

0814331017

OCLC:

56058097