S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema - Couverture souple

Wade, Cullen

 
9781476698151: S(p)lasher Flicks: The Swimming Pool in Horror Cinema
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1476698155 ISBN 13 : 9781476698151
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2025

Synopsis

Who's afraid of a midnight swim? This book dissects more than 100 horror films, covering nine decades and four continents, in an engaging exploration of the swimming pool as a site of secrets, sexuality, and social segregation. Drawing from cultural history, aquatics research, and sociological critiques, this work confronts aquatic monsters, suburban aliens, queer vampires, death cults, and bloody vengeance. The author dives into the tension of municipal pools as a health and fitness space with a history of discrimination; the roles of residential pools in community building and enforcing boundaries; and the mixed messages (resentment, alienation, prosperity) conveyed by backyard pools. Horror fans, swimmers, aquaphobics, students of pop culture, and others will find the site of the swimming pool forever transformed by this analysis.

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À propos de l?auteur

Cullen Wade is a writer, musician, and high school teacher from Charlottesville, Virginia. His film writing has appeared in online outlets like Deaf Sparrow and Boy in a Box, and he has been a guest programmer and panelist at the Virginia Film Festival.

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1476698155
ISBN 13 
9781476698151
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
259
Coordonnées du fabricant
McFarland
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/

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