Grief in contemporary horror cinema : screening loss / edited by Erica Joan Dymond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dymond, Erica Joan, editor.

Series:

Lexington Books horror studies

Lexington books horror studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Grief in motion pictures.

Bereavement--In motion pictures.

Bereavement.

Physical Description:

xviii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

Summary:

"Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines bereavement as it appears in horror films of the last two decades. This book addresses global hits such as Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and Jennifer Kent's The Babadook as well as lauded arthouse films such as Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Ari Aster's Midsommar"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I LOSS AND THE CHILD: GRIEF AND ENDANGERED YOUTH

ch. 1 Horror at the Crossroads: Mapping the Child's Grief in Pan's Labyrinth (2006) / Lindsey Scott

ch. 2 "We Can Survive This": An Examination of Loss and Grief in Juan Antonio Bayona's El orfanato (The Orphanage) (2007) / Erica Joan Dymond

ch. 3 Elevating Grief: Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018) and the A24 Horror Film / Todd K. Platts

pt. II LOSS AND GENDER: GRIEF AND MOTHERHOOD/WOMANHOOD

ch. 4 To Make You Feel My Love: Jennifer Kent's The Babadook (2014), Motherhood, and Loss / Rebecca L. Willoughby

ch. 5 The Myth of the Natural Woman: Horror and Grief in Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019) / Aspen Taylor Ballas

pt. III LOSS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: GRIEF AND HISTORY

ch. 6 O Father, Where Art Thou?: Grief and Cannibal Culture in Jorge Michel Grau's Somos lo que hay {We Are What We Are) (2010) / Megan De Virgilis

ch. 7 Sadness Is Rebellion: The Ontopolitics of Queer Loss in The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009) / Andrija Filipovic

ch. 8 The Grieving Dead: Haunting and the Haunted in the Spierig Brothers' Winchester (2018) / Racheal Harris

pt. IV LOSS AND THE KNOWN WORLD: GRIEF AND ANNIHILATION

ch. 9 "No One Will Miss It": Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011) and the World-Without-Us / Michael Brown.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Grief in contemporary horror cinema

ISBN:

9781793633934

1793633932

OCLC:

1348103039