American horror film : the genre at the turn of the millennium /

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Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self - or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hantke, Steffen, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2010.
Temas:
Horror films > United States > History and criticism.
Films d'horreur > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Horror films
United States
Multi-User
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • They don't make 'em like they used to: on the rhetoric of crisis and the current state of American horror cinema / Steffen Hantke
  • Bloody America: critical reassessments of the trans/-national and of graphic violence. The American horror film? Globalization and transnational U.S.-Asian genres / Christina Klein
  • A Parisian in Hollywood: ocular horror in the films of Alexandre Aja / Tony Perrello
  • "The pound of flesh which I demand": American horror cinema, gore, and the box office, 1998-2007 / Blair Davis and Kial Natale
  • A (post)modern house of pain: FearDotCom and the prehistory of the post-9/11 torture film / Reynold Humphries
  • The usual suspects: trends and transformations in the subgenres of American horror film. Teenage traumata: youth, affective politics, and the contemporary American horror film / Pamela Craig and Martin Fradley
  • Traumatic childhood now included: Todorov's fantastic and the uncanny slasher remake / Andrew Patrick Nelson
  • Whither the serial killer movie? / Philip L. Simpson
  • A return to the graveyard: notes on the spiritual horror film / James Kendrick
  • Look back in horror: managing the canon of American horror film. Auteurdämmerung: David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the twilight of (North) American horror auteur / Craig Bernardini
  • How the masters of horror master their personae: self-fashioning at play in the Masters of horror DVD extras / Ben Kooyman
  • "The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s": simulating auras and marketing nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse / Jay McRoy
  • Afterword. Memory, genre, and self-narrativization, or, why I should be a more content horror fan / David Church.

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