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Book Synopsis Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an alien reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging known concepts such as normality, reality, family and animals. Both making strange what was previously familiar, philosophy and horror feed each other.
This edited collection investigates the intersections of horror and philosophical thinking, spanning across media including literature, cinema and television. Topics covered include the cinema of David Lynch; Scream and Alien: Resurrection; the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges and H. P. Lovecraft; horror authors Blake Crouch and Paul Tremblay; Indian film; the television series Atlanta; and the horror comic book Dylan Dog. Philosophers discussed include Julia Kristeva, George Berkeley, Michel Foucault, and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. Using philosophies like post
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee
- Part 1: Postmodernist Storytelling
- The Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and Optimism
- Gavin F. Hurley
- Nightmare Allegory: Darren Aronofsky's Mother!
- Brian Brems
- Inland Empire and Reconciling Postmodern Fragmentation
- Dennin Ellis
- "It's all a movie": Postmodern Parody, Media, and Violence in Scream
- Douglas Rasmussen
- Part 2: Literary Horrors, Philosophical Inquiries
- The Disembodied Voice and Its Digital Dreaming: CCRU as Philosopher(s?) and Author
- Sara Powell
- Borges's Defense of Berkeley's Idealism in "There Are More Things"
- Andrés Torres-Scott
- Horror of Decision-Making: Aspects of Peter Zapffe's Existential Pessimism in Blake Crouch's Dark Matter
- Maria Lehtimäki
- Epistemologies of Horror and Narrative Construction: Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts, Scott Thomas's Kill Creek, and Clay McLeod Chapman's The Remaking
- Alissa Burger
- Part 3: Subhuman, Animality, Colonialism—The Horrors of the Other
- The Horror of X: Speculative Virontology and the Ahuman Sublime in Todd Verow's Bottom
- Andrija Filipović
- Four Men Before the Imminent: Death and Heroism in Bone Tomahawk
- Emiliano Aguilar
- Greed Is NOT Good: A Historical Materialist Reading of Two Indian Films: Rahi Anil Barve's Tumbbad and Satyajit Ray's Monihara
- Joe Varghese Yeldho, Amarjeet Nayak, and Mehboobun Nahar Milky
- The Lure of Folk Horror: Ari Aster's Midsommar
- Priyanka Kapoor
- Entering the Ecosystem: Human Identity, Biology, and Horror
- Octavia Cade
- Posthumanism, Sexism: Animalizing Ripley in Alien: Resurrection
- Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
- Part 4: Seriality—Comics, Television, Shorts
- The Black Universes of Donald Glover and Hiro Murai: Woke Horror Cinema, Existential Pessimisms, and the Shadowy Speculations of Blackness in "This Is America" and Atlanta
- David John Boyd
- Moral Relativism and the Horror of Self in Season 2 of AMC's The Walking Dead
- Scott Pearce
- The Horror Versus L'Indagatore dell'Incubo: The Dionysian Irrational, and Absurd in Dylan Dog's Narrative
- Marco Favaro
- Body Horror Behind the Wheel: Mapping the Aesthetics of the Driving Safety Gore Film in Horror
- Michael Stock
- About the Contributors
- Index
