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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge collection features original essays by eminent scholars on one of cinema's most dynamic and enduringly popular genres, covering everything from the history of horror movies to the latest critical approaches.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Preface xiii
Part I Approaches and Contexts 1
1 Cognitive and Philosophical Approaches to Horror 3
Aaron Smuts
2 Horror and Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Primer 21
Chris Dumas
3 Gender and Sexuality Haunts the Horror Film 38
Daniel Humphrey
4 The Horror Film as Social Allegory (And How it Comes Undone) 56
Christopher Sharrett
5 Avenging the Body: Disability in the Horror Film 73
Travis Sutton
6 Horror Reception/Audiences 90
Matt Hills
7 A’s, B’s, Quickies, Orphans, and Nasties: Horror Films in the Context of Distribution and Exhibition 109
Kevin Heffernan
8 Horror and the Censors 130
Julian Petley
Part II The Form of Horror 149
9 Carl Dreyer’s Corpse: Horror Film Atmosphere and Narrative 151
Robert Spadoni
10 Horror Sound Design 168
William Whittington
11 Mellifluous Terror:The Discourse of Music and Horror Films 186
Joe Tompkins
Part III A History of the (Western) Horror Film 205
12 Horror Before “The Horror Film” 207
Harry M. Benshoff
13 Classical Hollywood Horror 225
John Edgar Browning
14 Horror in the 1940s 237
Mark Jancovich
15 Science Fiction and Horror in the 1950s 255
Steffen Hantke
16 The Gothic Revival (1957–1974) 273
RickWorland
17 International Horror in the 1970s 292
Peter Hutchings
18 Slasher Films and Gore in the 1980s 310
James Kendrick
19 Millennial Fears: Abject Horror in a Transnational Context 329
Adam Charles Hart
20 Torture Porn: 21st Century Horror 345
Isabel C. Pinedo
Part IV Selected International Horror Cinemas 363
21 Spanish Horror Cinema 365
Ian Olney
22 The Return of the Rural Repressed: Italian Horror and the Mezzogiorno Giallo 390
Xavier Mendik
23 Recent Trends in Japanese Horror Cinema 406
Jay McRoy
24 South Korean Horror Cinema 423
Daniel Martin
25 Sisterhood of Terror:The Monstrous Feminine of Southeast Asian Horror Cinema 442
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Part V Selected Archetypes, Hybrids, and Crossovers 461
26 Vampires and Transnational Horror 463
Dale Hudson
27 Trash Horror and the Cult of the Bad Film 483
I. Q. Hunter
28 “MoodyThree”: Revisiting Ken Russell’s The Devils 501
Joan Hawkins
29 Horror’s Otherness and Ethnographic Surrealism: The Case of The Shout 519
Adam Lowenstein
30 The Documentary Impulse and Reel/Real Horror 536
Caroline Joan S. Picart
Index 554
