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Dark Forces at Work
Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
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Dark Forces at Work
Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
About this book
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.
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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Yes, you can access Dark Forces at Work by Cynthia J. Miller,A. Bowdoin Van Riper in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I NATIONAL IDENTITY: HAUNTING THE HOMELAND
- Chapter One Ringing Home, Missed Calls, and Unbroken Land-Lines
- Chapter Two Redefining the Heimat
- Chapter Three Korean National Trauma and the Myth of Hypermasculinity in The Wailing (2016)
- Chapter Four The Witch, the Wolf, and the Monster
- Part II MARKET FORCES AND THEIR MONSTERS
- Chapter Five Recession Horror
- Chapter Six Classism and Horror in the 1970s
- Chapter Seven All against All
- Chapter Eight Motor City Gothic
- Part III IDEOLOGY: YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE
- Chapter Nine Gothic Neoliberalism in 1980s British Horror Cinema
- Chapter Ten Infringing on Cycles of Oppression
- Chapter Eleven Faith as Confinement
- Part IV HISTORY NEVER DIES
- Chapter Twelve The Pursuit of Certainty
- Chapter Thirteen āNothing Is What It Seemsā
- Chapter Fourteen āTens of Thousands of Men Died Hereā
- Chapter Fifteen Peril, Imprisonment, and the Power of Place in Jordan Peeleās Get Out
- Chapter Sixteen The Hovel Condemned
- Chapter Seventeen Coming Home to Horror
- Chapter Eighteen It Follows and the Uncertainties of the Middle Class
- Chapter Nineteen āWeāre All in Our Private Trapsā
- Index
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors