Horror comes home : essays on hauntings, possessions and other domestic terrors in cinema / edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Cynthia J., 1958- editor.

Van Riper, A. Bowdoin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Home in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Uncanny Spaces

Romping with Freud in the Pink Palace: Abjection, the Uncanny and the Victorian Feminine in Henry Selick's Coraline (2009) / Sue Matheson

Guillermo del Toro's Home for Horrified Orphans / William M. Crouch

This House Is Ours: Haunting the Self in Alejandro Amenabar's The Others / Anabel Altemir-Giral

Inside the Box: Home, Horror and Helplessness in Demon Seed / A. Bowdoin Van Riper

II. Dark Legacies

Ghost Karma: The Winchester House as Spiritual Reparation / Thomas Robert Argiro

The House That White Privilege Built: Jordan Peek's Get Out and the Haunting Legacy of Plantation Slavery / Cammie M. Sublette

Haunted Suburbs, Missing Children and the Reagan-Era Bogeyman: Stalking Gothumentary Catharsis in Cropsey / Ruth Goldberg

Feminism's Reoccurring Nightmare: Monstrous Patriarchy, Pulp Horror and The Stepford Wives / Ruth Wollersheim

Fractured Heroines, Traumatic Pasts: Traversing the Haunted Homes of Horror / Nina K. Martin

III. Troubled Minds and Bodies

Television Killed the Video Star: How A&E's Bates Motel Explains the Shock of Hitchcock's Psycho as a Realist Account of Daily Life in Late Capitalism / David Anshen

Home Invasions: Masculine Spaces and the Mind in Manhunter / Brian Brems

Shallow Focus: Trawling the Gothic Undercurrents of Lake Mungo / Duncan Hubber

The Horror of the Circus: Exhibiting Disability in Freaks (1932) and American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014) / Tatiana Prorokova

IV. Insidious Threats

"We never knew you lived in the block": The White Mother and Black Male Sexual Violence in Attack the Block / Bart Bishop

Coming Home to Horror in Insidious: The Last Key / Cynthia J. Miller

You Saw Me, Didn't You? The Horror of the Mediated Eye in the Occult Horror Ringu Franchise / Senjo Nakai

The Stranger in the House: Interwar Crisis Comes Home in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) / Thomas Prasch

"Lamento lo que va a ocurrir aqui": The Place(lessness) of Youth in Mexico in Carlos Enrique Taboada's Mds negro que la noche / Phillip Serrato.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1476679673

9781476679679

OCLC:

1104419892