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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hantke, Steffen.

Contributor:

Hantke, Steffen, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--United States--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Motion pictures--United States--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self-or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye. Individual essays profile the work of up-and-coming director Alexandre Aja and reassess William Malone's muchmaligned Feardotcom in the light of the torture debate at the end of President George W. Bush's administra

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62103-104-7

1-282-55565-0

9786612555657

1-60473-454-X

OCLC:

645937908