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American horror film : the genre at the turn of the millennium / edited by Steffen Hantke.

Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.H6 A385 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hantke, Steffen, 1962-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Horror films--United States--History and criticism.
Horror films.
United States.
Physical Description:
xxxii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2010]
Contents:
They don't make 'em like they used to: on the rhetoric of crisis and the current state of American horror cinema / Steffen Hantke
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
A Parisian in Hollywood: ocular horror in the films of Alexandre Aja / Tony Perrello
"The pound of flesh which I demand": American horror cinema, gore, and the box office, 1998-2007 / Blair Davis and Kial Natale
A (post)modern house of pain: FearDotCom and the prehistory of the post-9/11 torture film / Reynold Humphries
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
Traumatic childhood now included: Todorov's fantastic and the uncanny slasher remake / Andrew Patrick Nelson
Whither the serial killer movie? / Philip L. Simpson
A return to the graveyard: notes on the spiritual horror film / James Kendrick
Look back in horror: managing the canon of American horror film. Auteurdämmerung: David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the twilight of (North) American horror auteur / Craig Bernardini
How the masters of horror master their personae: self-fashioning at play in the Masters of horror DVD extras / Ben Kooyman
"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
Afterword. Memory, genre, and self-narrativization, or, why I should be a more content horror fan / David Church.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781604734539
1604734531
9781604734546
160473454X
OCLC:
466361488

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