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The wounds of nations : Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity.

The wounds of nations explores the ways in which horror films allows international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history? from genocide to terrorist outrage, nuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horror (whether it be from 1...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blake, Linnie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 9780719075933; 9780719075933; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: traumatic events andinternational horror cinema; PART I German and Japanese horror:the traumatic legacy of the SecondWorld War; Introduction; 1 The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present: Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks; 2 Nihonjinron, women, horror: post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The Ring; PART II The traumatised 1970s and the threa tof apocalypse now; Introduction; 3 'Consumed out of the good land': George A. Romero's horror of the 1970s.
  • 4 All hail to the serial killer: America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyondPART III From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the Americanpoor white; Introduction; 5 'Squealing like a pig': the War onTerror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11; PART IV New Labour new horrors: the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity; Introduction; 6 Zombies, dog men and dragons: generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium; Conclusion: horror cinema and traumatic events; Filmography; Bibliography; Index.