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Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.

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Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinema
I German and Japanese horror – the traumatic legacy of world war two
II The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now
III: From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the American poor white
IV: New Labour new horrors – the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity
Conclusions
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

The Wounds of Nations Horror Cinema Historical

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719075940, 978-0719075940
      ISBN10: 0719075947

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinema
      I German and Japanese horror – the traumatic legacy of world war two
      II The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now
      III: From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the American poor white
      IV: New Labour new horrors – the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity
      Conclusions
      Bibliography
      Filmography
      Index

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