White Terror : The Horror Film from Obama to Trump /

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"What kinds of terror lurk beneath the surface of White respectability? Many of the top-grossing US horror films between 2008 and 2016 relied heavily on themes of White, patriarchal fear and fragility: outsiders disrupting the sanctity of the almost always White family, evil forces or transgres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meeuf, Russell, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White people in motion pictures.
Race relations in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Motion pictures.
Horror films.
Cinema > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Relations raciales au cinema.
Race au cinema.
Films d'horreur > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
Horror films > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Whiteness, politics, and horror
  • Whiteness under siege, part. 1 : haunted house films
  • Whiteness under siege, part. 2 : home invasions
  • American dreams : fantasies and social mobility in Dream house and Drag me to hell
  • Sad white men and their demons : possession films
  • Suffering and reluctant mothers meet their match : horrific children
  • Motor City gothic : white youth and economic anxiety in It follows and Don't breath
  • Surveilling whiteness : the horrific technology film
  • Making horror great again : the horror remake
  • Conclusion: horror in the Trump era.

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