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Grief in contemporary horror cinema : screening loss / edited by Erica Joan Dymond.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lexington Books horror studies.
- Lexington Books horror studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bereavement in motion pictures.
- Grief in motion pictures.
- Horror films--History and criticism.
- Horror films.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, 2022.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Loss and the Child
- Horror at the Crossroads
- "We Can Survive This"
- Elevating Grief
- Loss and Gender
- To Make You Feel My Love
- The Myth of the Natural Woman
- Loss and National Identity
- O Father, Where Art Thou?
- Sadness Is Rebellion
- The Grieving Dead
- Loss and the Known World
- "No One Will Miss It"
- Index
- About the Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-66699-511-8
- 1-7936-3394-0
- OCLC:
- 1355048894
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