{"product_id":"the-canadian-horror-film-9781442628502","title":"The Canadian Horror Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the cheaply made “tax-shelter” films of the 1970s to the latest wave of contemporary “eco-horror,” Canadian horror cinema has rarely received much critical attention. Gina Freitag and André Loiselle rectify that situation in \u003cem\u003eThe Canadian Horror Film\u003c\/em\u003e with a series of thought-provoking reflections on Canada’s “terror of the soul,” a wasteland of docile damnation and prosaic pestilence where savage beasts and mad scientists rub elbows with pasty suburbanites, grumpy seamen, and baby-faced porn stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing chapters on \u003cem\u003ePontypool\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGinger Snaps\u003c\/em\u003e, 1970s slasher films, Quebec horror, and the work of David Cronenberg, among many others, \u003cem\u003eThe Canadian Horror Film\u003c\/em\u003e unearths the terrors hidden in the recesses of the Canadian psyche. It examines the highlights of more than a century of Canadian horror filmmaking and includes an extensive filmography to guide both scholars and enthusiasts alike throug\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'These excellent essays identify precisely what sets the Canadian horror film apart from its American and British brethren... Highly recommended.' -- G.A. Foster Choice Magazine vol 53:08:2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTerror of the Soul: An Introduction - Gina Freitag and Andre Loiselle  I - SHAPING THE CANADIAN HORROR LANDSCAPE  1. Monsters Up North: A Taxonomy of Terror - Caelum Vatnsdal  2. Viral Culture: Canadian Cultural Protectionism and Pontypool - Andrea Subissati  II - THE TERRITORIES OF HORROR: TERROR STORIES ON PAGE AND SCREEN  3. Blood in the Bush Garden: Indigenization, Gender and Unsettling Horror - Aalya Ahmad  4. Pure Laine Evil: The Horrifying Normality of Quebec's Ordinary Hell in the Film Adaptations of Patrick Senecal's 'Romans d'Epouvante' - Andre Loiselle  III - A GOLDEN AGE OF GORE: THE TAX SHELTER SLASHER  5. (Who's in the) Driver's Seat: The Canadian Brute Unleashed in Death Weekend - Paul Corupe   6. The Creation and Codification of the Forest Slasher during the Tax Shelter Years 1977-1982 - Mark R. Hasan  IV - THE TRUE NORTH, STRONG AND VIOLENT: ECO-HORROR IN CANADA  7. The [Hostile] Nature of Things: A Cultural Dialogue on Environmental Survival - Gina Freitag   8. Eco-Horror and Boundary Transgressions in Orca: The Killer Whale - Peter Thompson  V - HORROR BY ANY OTHER NAME: ANIMATION AND THE AVANT GARDE  9. A Song From the Heart Beats the Devil Every Time: The Fear of Selling out in Nelvana's The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Rock and Rule - Kier-La Janisse   10. Where is Fear? Space, Place, and the Sense of Horror in the Canadian Avant-Garde Film - Scott Birdwise  VI - BLOOD, GUTS, AND BEYOND: AN HOMAGE TO CRONENBERG  11. Traces of Horror: the Later Films of David Cronenberg - Bill Beard  12. The Physician as Mad Scientist: A Fear of Deviant Medical Practices in the Films of David Conenberg - James Burrell  13. Contagious Characters: Cronenberg's Rabid, Demarbre's Smash Cut and the Reframing of Porn- fame - Sean Moreland  'Canadian Mental-Case': A Conclusion - Gina Freitag and Andre Loiselle  Bibliography  Filmography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769666044247,"sku":"9781442628502","price":32.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442628502.jpg?v=1758722140","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-canadian-horror-film-9781442628502","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}