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Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave the fear and exhilaration generated by a terrifying story; their anticipation is palpable. But they also breathe a sigh of relief when the action is over, when they are able to close their books or le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fahy, Thomas Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2010.
Colección:Philosophy of popular culture.
Temas:
Horror films > History and criticism.
Horror television programs > History and criticism.
Horror in literature.
Horror tales, American > History and criticism.
Popular culture.
Films d'horreur > Histoire et critique.
Émissions d'horreur télévisées > Histoire et critique.
Horreur dans la littérature.
Récits d'horreur américains > Histoire et critique.
Culture populaire.
popular culture.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Horror films
Horror in literature
Horror tales, American
Horror television programs
Popular culture
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Thomas Fahy
  • Horror and the idea of everyday life: on skeptical threats in Psycho and The birds / Philip J. Nickel
  • Through a mirror, darkly: art-horror as a medium for moral reflection / Philip Tallon
  • The justification of torture-horror: retribution and sadism in Saw, Hostel, and The devil's rejects / Jeremy Morris
  • Hobbes, human nature, and the culture of American violence in Truman Capote's In cold blood / Thomas Fahy
  • Making their presence known: TV's ghost-hunter phenomenon in a "post-" world / Jessica O'Hara
  • The vampire with a soul: Angel and the quest for identity / Amy Kind
  • Ideological formations of the nuclear family in The hills have eyes / Lorena Russell
  • Zombies of the world, unite: class struggle and alienation in Land of the dead / John Lutz
  • The fall of the house of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the gothic vision of The black cat / Paul A. Cantor
  • From domestic nightmares to the nightmare of history: uncanny eruptions of violence in King's and Kubrick's versions of The Shining / John Lutz
  • "Hot with rapture and cold with fear": grotesque, sublime, and postmodern transformations in Patrick Süskind's Perfume / Susann Cokal
  • Shock value: a deleuzean Encounter with James Purdy's Narrow rooms / Robert F. Gross
  • Making monsters: the philosophy of reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universal Films Frankenstein and The bride of Frankenstein / Ann C. Hall
  • Kitsch and camp and things that go bump in the night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (horror) movies / David MacGregor Johnston.

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