Re-imagining the victim in post-1970s horror media / edited by Madelon Hoedt and Marko Lukić.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoedt, Madelon, 1985- editor.

Lukić, Marko, editor.

Series:

Horror and Gothic Media Cultures Series

Horror and Gothic media cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to become invisible - the threat of horror implies the need for a victim, whose function never alters, often becoming a blank slate for audiences to project their desires and fears onto.<br><br>This volume seeks to make explicit the concept of the victim within horror media and to examine their position in more detail, demonstrating that the necessity of their appearance within the genre does not equate to a simplicity of definition.<br><br>The chapters within this volume cover a number of topics and approaches, examining sources from literature, film, TV, and games (both analogue and digital) to show the pervasiveness of horror's victims, as well as the variety of their guises.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction: Theorising the Victim

Marko Lukić

1. Opening the Gate: Reconfiguring the Child Victim in Stranger Things

Lindsey Scott

2. Black Death: Black Victims in 1980s Teen Slashers

Todd K. Platts

3. Beyond Binaries: The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives

Irena Jurković

4. Through the Looking-Glass: The Gothic Victim in Jordan Peele's Us

Ljubica Matek

5. Postmortem Victimhood: Necrovalue in Phantasm and Dead and Buried

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

6. The Sad Killer: Perpetuating Spaces, Trauma and Violence within the Slasher Genre

7. "If this is the last thing you see… that means I died": A Taxonomy of Camera-Operating Victims in Found Footage Horror Films

Peter Turner

8. Victimhood and Rhetorical Dialectics within Clive Barker's Faustian Fiction

Gavin F. Hurley

9. Pain Index, Plain Suffering and Blood Measure: A Victimology of Driving Safety Films, 1955-1975

Michael J. T. Stock

10. Biolithic Horror: Stone Victim/Victimisers in Resident Evil Village

Merlyn Seller

11. The Potential Victim: Horror Role-Playing Games and the Cruelty of Things

Ian Downes

Bibliography

Filmography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-04-083479-5

1-04-083692-5

1-003-70249-X

90-485-5514-0

9781003702498

OCLC:

1396265006