Contemporary Slavic horror across media : cursed zones / edited by Agnieszka Jezyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jezyk, Agnieszka.

Contributor:

Agnieszka Jeżyk

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--Slavic countries--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Horror films--Europe--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

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Biography/History:

Agnieszka Jezyk is Assistant Professor of Polish Studies at the University of Washington.

Summary:

An anthology of essays devoted to Slavic horror fiction assesses current trends in East/Central European horror media, with focus on the mid-20th century to the present, and in particular the post-Soviet period.

Contents:

Foreword / Agnieszka Jezyk

Part I: Horror and media

1. 'I'm dying in Russia': Necropolitics and the mournful undead in the horror music videos of IC3PEAK / Brittany R. Roberts

2. Post-Soviet gothic and the East European zombie / José Alaniz

3. The nightmare of reality: Video games as Eastern European cultural export and catharsis to trauma /Amanda DiGioia

Part II: Horrors of war

4. "Let cinema haunt us:" War in eastern Ukraine on screen / Volha Isakava

5. The horror that won't end: Reenactments of national trauma in Ukrainian neo-gothic fiction / Svitlana Krys

6. Interethnic horror on screen: Tracing the Polish final girl in recent European cinema / Kris Van Heuckelom and Marta Wójtowicz

Part III: Haunted geographies

7. Every place has its dark corner. Slovak horror and Jozef Karika's prose / Marek Debnár

8. Zombie yearnings & the (re-)location of memory: Igor Ostachowicz's Night of the Living Jews / Matthew Mucha

9. Magic powers of resistance: Myth, space and subversion in the Czech horror film Prague Nights (1968) / Jonathan Owen

Part IV: Horror transgressions

10. Aesthetics, symbolism, presentation: from musical creativity to non-genre performance. Faces of horror in East and Central European music and their artistic identification / Dariusz Baran

11. The car with teeth: Juraj Herz's The Ferat Vampire , the monstrous feminine, and cyborg prostheses / Daniel W. Pratt

12. Art-horror lite and full throttle: The arresting originality of Ewa Juszkiewicz and Aleksandra Waliszewska / Helena Goscilo

Index .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-7277-1

1-5261-7278-X

OCLC:

1522807792