{"product_id":"horror-and-philosophy-9781476687605","title":"Horror and Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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; \u003ci\u003eScream\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAlien: Resurrection\u003c\/i\u003e; the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges and H. P. Lovecraft; horror authors Blake Crouch and Paul Tremblay; Indian film; the television series \u003ci\u003eAtlanta\u003c\/i\u003e; and the horror comic book \u003ci\u003eDylan Dog\u003c\/i\u003e. Philosophers discussed include Julia Kristeva, George Berkeley, Michel Foucault, and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. Using philosophies like post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish Bhattacharjee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1: Postmodernist Storytelling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and Optimism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGavin F. Hurley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNightmare Allegory: Darren Aronofsky's Mother!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrian Brems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInland Empire and Reconciling Postmodern Fragmentation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDennin Ellis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"It's all a movie\": Postmodern Parody, Media, and Violence in Scream\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouglas Rasmussen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2: Literary Horrors, Philosophical Inquiries\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Disembodied Voice and Its Digital Dreaming: CCRU as Philosopher(s?) and Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSara Powell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBorges's Defense of Berkeley's Idealism in \"There Are More Things\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrés Torres-Scott\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorror of ­Decision-Making: Aspects of Peter Zapffe's Existential Pessimism in Blake Crouch's Dark Matter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaria Lehtimäki\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpistemologies 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlissa Burger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 3: Subhuman, Animality, Colonialism—The Horrors of the Other\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Horror of X: Speculative Virontology and the Ahuman Sublime in Todd Verow's Bottom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAndrija Filipović\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Men Before the Imminent: Death and Heroism in Bone Tomahawk\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmiliano Aguilar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGreed Is NOT Good: A Historical Materialist Reading of Two Indian Films: Rahi Anil Barve's Tumbbad and Satyajit Ray's Monihara\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoe Varghese Yeldho, Amarjeet Nayak, and Mehboobun Nahar Milky\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lure of Folk Horror: Ari Aster's Midsommar\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePriyanka Kapoor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEntering the Ecosystem: Human Identity, Biology, and Horror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOctavia Cade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePosthumanism, Sexism: Animalizing Ripley in Alien: Resurrection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 4: Seriality—Comics, Television, Shorts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe 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\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid John Boyd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoral Relativism and the Horror of Self in Season 2 of AMC's The Walking Dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScott Pearce\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Horror Versus L'Indagatore dell'Incubo: The Dionysian Irrational, and Absurd in Dylan Dog's Narrative\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarco Favaro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBody Horror Behind the Wheel: Mapping the Aesthetics of the Driving Safety Gore Film in Horror\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMichael Stock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040503726423,"sku":"9781476687605","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476687605.jpg?v=1750946949","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/horror-and-philosophy-9781476687605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}