Ebook: The philosophy of horror
Author: Fahy Thomas Richard
- Tags: Horror television programs--History and criticism, Horror films--History and criticism, Horror tales American--History and criticism, Popular culture, Horror films, Horror in literature, Horror tales American, Horror television programs, Criticism interpretation etc, Horror films -- History and criticism, Horror television programs -- History and criticism, Horror tales American -- History and criticism
- Series: The philosophy of popular culture
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Eurospan [distributor]
- City: London;Lexington;Ky
- Language: English
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Horror and the idea of everyday life: on skeptical threats in Psycho and The Birds / Philip J. Nickel -- Through a mirror, darkly: art-horror as a medium for moral reflection / Philip Tallon -- Justification of torture-horror: retribution and sadism in Saw, Hostel, and The Devil's Rejects / Jeremy Morris -- Hobbes, human nature, and the culture of American violence in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood / Thomas Fahy -- Making their presence known: TV's ghost-hunter phenomenon in a "post-" world / Jessica O'Hara -- Vampire with a soul: Angel and the quest for identity / Amy Kind -- Ideological formations of the nuclear family in The Hills Have Eyes / Lorena Russell -- Zombies of the world, unite: class struggle and alienation in Land of the Dead / John Lutz -- Fall of the house of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the gothic vision of The Black Cat / Paul A. Cantor -- From domestic nightmares to the nightmare of history: uncanny eruptions of violence in King's and Kubrick's versions of The Shining / John Lutz -- "Hot with rapture and cold with fear": grotesque, sublime, and postmodern transformations in Patrick Suskind's Perfume / Susann Cokal -- Shock value: a Deleuzan encounter with James Purdy's Narrow Rooms / Robert F. Gross -- Making monsters: the philosophy of reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universal Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein / Ann C. Hall -- Kitsch and camp and things that go bump in the night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (horror) movies / David MacGregor Johnston.
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