The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century

Simon Bacon

doi:10.5771/9781793643407

Summary

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre- women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being seen and finding space to speak.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4339-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4340-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 328
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1. Horror Theory Now No access
2. Decadent Feasts No access
3. From One Extreme to Another No access
4. The Recurrence and Evolution of Universal’s Classic Monsters in Twenty-First-Century Horror No access
5. The Remixing (and Ransacking) of Hill House No access
1. Further Notes Toward a Monster Pedagogy No access
2. Sounding Horror No access
3. The Evolution of Horror on Stage No access
4. Hauntify the World No access
5. The Evolution of Horror and New Media No access
1. The Future of Horror No access
2. Black Lives Matter (BLM) Horror No access
3. Indigenous Horror in the Twenty-First Century No access
4. “Stepping out of the Closet” No access
5. Involution, Adaptation, Mutation No access
6. Sympathy for the Candyman No access
1. The Futures for Folk Horror No access
2. The Rise in Ecohorror and Ecogothic Criticism No access
3. Undying Earth No access
4. Fear of Infection No access
5. The Metal and the Flesh No access
Index No access Pages 317 - 322
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 323 - 328