Facing our darkness : manifestations of fear, horror and terror / edited by Laura Colmenero-Chilberg and Ferenc Mujdricza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Colmenero-Chilberg, Laura, editor.

Mujdricza, Ferenc, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fear--Social aspects.

Fear.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2015]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. Fear ... Horror ... Terror ... The very words cause us to tingle with both anticipation and unease. Sitting in the movie theatre waiting for the murderer to jump out and kill the clueless teenager we are both repulsed and excited about the impending death . We yell, "He's behind the tree!" knowing our reminders are pointless but unable to restrain ourselves when caught up in the panic of the moment. Humans have a fascination with fear, horror, and terror. Why? Whatever the reason, it both fascinates and often disgusts us. All of these emotional phenomena - fear, horror, terror - are infected by our fear of death. In the end all three phenomena test our courage. Yet this courage is not only heroic - each and every optimistic, trusting, self-confident, and faithful person permanently has it in spite of all the fears, horrors, and terrors with which the state of human existence threatens us since the dawn of self-awareness. This book is about some of these threats...

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Laura Colmenero-Chilberg and Ferenc Mújdricza

What We Fear and What We Desire: The Nature of Fear and Terror in Vampire Oriented Cinema / Magdalena Grabias

From the Villain to the Avenger: Mythical Portrayals of Sweeney Todd / Karina dos Santos Salles

Imprisoned in Silence: Anxiety and Embodiment in I Want To Live! / Eloise Ross

Pregnancy, Horror, and Terror in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Of Spiritual Rebirth and Poetic Justice in the Narratives of Metafilm / Thulile Pearl Shandu

Archaeology of 21st Century U.S. Horror: Production, Exhibition and Consumption of Hardcore Horror / James Aston

A World without Magic: The Curse in Once Upon a Time / Sandra Trabucco Valenzuela

The Traumatised Body of the Performance Artist: Marina Abramović and Franko B. / Karolina Lambrou

Childish Games: Children, Horror, and the Abu Ghraib Photographs / Ana Romão

Bored to Death: Violence and Narrative Indifference in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 / Nisha Viswanathan

The Spirit of Lucifer: Rethinking the Mythology of Isak Dinesen / Svend Skriver

Japanese Occupation of Andaman 1942-1945: A Promise of Freedom or Betrayal / Deepshikha Salooja

Morality in Hell: Case Study on Women in Auschwitz / Lily Halpert Zamir

Symbolism and Militarism of Canada’s North / Mark Williams and Danita Catherine Burke

Horror and Fear Associated with Current Methods of Exorcism among Pentecostals in Nigeria / Eunice I. Anyacho and Ernest O. Anyacho

Fear and Terror Surrounding the Myth and Migration of the Fulani Nomads and Their Yearly Clashes with Crop Farmers in Nigeria / Ernest Okey Anyacho and Eugene U. Ibli

The Anxious Self in Contemporary Self-Help Literature / Valérie de Courville Nicol

Fear Arising Out of Misinterpretation: Cultural Differences between the Loong and the Dragon / Wenjing Bi

The Experience of the Negative Sublime: A Terror Heuristic of the Anthropic Action Effects on the Environment / Sandra Escobar

The Wearing of Death: Fear of Death and Social Deviance / Ferenc Mújdricza

‘Fear’, ‘Horror’ and ‘Terror’: Not Moral-Evaluation Constants but Moral-Evaluation Functions, Determined by Two Moral-Evaluation-Variables in Algebra of Formal Ethics / Vladimir Lobovikov.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-429-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884298 DOI