Cultural experiences of fear, horror and terror / Mark Callaghan, Kacey Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Callaghan, Mark, author.

Davis, Kacey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2016]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. This volume comprises numerous academic papers concerning essential subjects in relation to fear, horror and terror, from cinematic representations and their subsequent responses, to first person accounts of terror by way of literature and journalism. Key scholars are employed to develop these important research areas as they provide new insights into cultural experiences and evaluations of fear, horror and terror, and their consequent analysis. Contributors also explore cross-cultural fear, the memorialisation of violence, and female experiences of fear represented through literature, theatre, and cinema. Valuable research is also demonstrated by way of the conceptualisation and management of fear, including the control of public fear in relation to mental illness, along with significant insights concerning depictions of sexual violence, the concept of the sublime in relation to the visualisation of the universe, and the relationship between scales of fright and the bulk of the on-screen monster.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Mark Callaghan and Kacey Davis

Seeing the Invisible: Representing what Cannot Be Represented / Mark Callaghan

Depictions of Terror: Contemporary Artistic Representations of Sexual Violence / Amanda Stone

Fears in Hybridic Fiction: When Reality Negates the Pleasures of Terror / Tamara Andersson

Terror and Shock in H.P. Lovecraft / Cátia Cristina Sanzovo Jota

Ordinary Pain: Torture as Domestic Power Struggle in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming / Kacey Davis

Fear of Implausibility: Women in Othello / Katia Mitova

The Tragic Politics of Fear, Nature and Gender in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist / A. Andreas Wansbrough

An Analysis of ‘Terror’ within the Light of the Hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur / Gerben Bakker

Conflicts in the Control of Fear: From the Archives of the New Zealand Mental Hospitals Department / Rebecca McLaughlan

Post-War Existence in Georgia: After August 2008 / Nino Tabeshadze

Why Size Matters: Fear, Terror, and Their Real World Counterparts in Monster Movies / Woodrow B. Hood

Cosmic Landscapes, Infinite Spaces and the Smell of Terror: The Sublime in 20th-Century Space Visualizations / Kornelia Boczkowska

I’m Not Sure I Like the Sound of That: Palliative Effects of the ‘Synchronous Monster’ in The Exorcist / Simon Hewitt

The Dickensian Night: The Uncanny and the Urban Alienated / Puja Sen

Stories of Fear, Horror and Terror: The Price that the Storytellers Pay / Magdalena Hodalska

Reporting Fear in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year / Marcia Bessa Marques

The Devil and the Racial Other in Tabish Khair’s The Things about Thugs / Om Prakash Dwivedi

Cross-Cultural Fear? Japanese Horror Films and Their Hollywood Remakes / Martin Hennig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-331-5

OCLC:

1096236973

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848883314 DOI