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Edité par Lexington Books, 2023
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- Titre
- Dark Forces at Work: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors (Research in Horror Studies)
- Éditeur
- Lexington Books
- Année de publication
- 2023
- État de l'article
- New
- Reliure
- Couverture souple
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1498588573
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781498588577
- Poids de l'article
- 669 grammes
- Série
- Livre 1 sur 15: Lexington Books Horror Studies
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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À propos de l’auteur
A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian who specializes in depictions of science and technology in popular culture.
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz).
Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College, USA. She teaches courses in research, writing, and literature, specializing in gender, horror, and the Gothic. She is the author of IT, Chapters One & Two (2023), The Quest for the Dark Tower: Genre and Interconnection in the Stephen King Series (2021), Teaching Stephen King: Horror, The Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature (2016) and The Wizard of Oz as American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007 (2012).
James J. Ward is professor of history at Cedar Crest College. He has authored numerous articles focused on both film and history, and his essays have been published in such volumes as Selling Sex on Screen: From Weimar Republic to Zombie Porn (2015) and Horrors of War: The Undead on the Battlefield (2015), both published by Rowman & Littlefield.
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