Horror - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1787079198 ISBN 13 : 9781787079199

Editeur : Peter Lang, 2019

Synopsis

What is Horror? This terrifying genre gives shape to our anxieties as humans, and as a society. Short, accessible essays offer an introduction to horror in old and new media, including film, literature, games and comics. Texts range from classics like Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to Jordan Peele's Get Out.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Bacon has published many articles on vampires, monstrosity, science fiction and media studies and has co-edited books on various subjects including Undead Memory: Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture (2014), Seductive Concepts: Perspectives on Sins, Vices and Virtues (2014), Little Horrors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anomalous Children and the Construction of Monstrosity (2016), To Boldly Go: Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe (2017), Growing Up with Vampires: Essays on the Undead in Children's Media (2018) and The Gothic (2018). He has published two monographs, Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture (2016) and Dracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen (2019), and is currently working on his third, Eco-Vampires: The Vampire as Environmentalist and Undead Eco-activist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787079198
• ISBN 13: 9781787079199
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Bacon
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne