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Dark Forces at Work
Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
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2019
Summary
Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue between fantasy and lived reality, as well.
While several of the essays focus on “name” horror films such as IT, Get Out, Hellraiser, and Don’t Breathe, the collection also features essays focused on horror films produced in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and on American classic thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Key social issues addressed include the war on terror, poverty, the housing crisis, and the Time’s Up movement. The volume grounds its analysis in the films, rather than theory, in order to explore the ways in which institutions, identities, and ideologies work within the horror genre.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8855-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8856-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
338
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter One Ringing Home, Missed Calls, and Unbroken Land-Lines No access
Chapter Two Redefining the Heimat No access
Chapter Three Korean National Trauma and the Myth of Hypermasculinity in The Wailing (2016) No access
Chapter Four The Witch, the Wolf, and the Monster No access
Chapter Five Recession Horror No access
Chapter Six Classism and Horror in the 1970s No access
Chapter Seven All against All No access
Chapter Eight Motor City Gothic No access
Chapter Nine Gothic Neoliberalism in 1980s British Horror Cinema No access
Chapter Ten Infringing on Cycles of Oppression No access
Chapter Eleven Faith as Confinement No access
Chapter Twelve The Pursuit of Certainty No access
Chapter Thirteen “Nothing Is What It Seems” No access
Chapter Fourteen “Tens of Thousands of Men Died Here” No access
Chapter Fifteen Peril, Imprisonment, and the Power of Place in Jordan Peele’s Get Out No access
Chapter Sixteen The Hovel Condemned No access
Chapter Seventeen Coming Home to Horror No access
Chapter Eighteen It Follows and the Uncertainties of the Middle Class No access
Chapter Nineteen “We’re All in Our Private Traps” No access
Index No access Pages 323 - 330
About the Editors No access Pages 331 - 332
About the Contributors No access Pages 333 - 338
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