| Description |
1 online resource (v, 177 pages). |
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text file |
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Quick takes: movies and popular culture
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Quick takes.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Suburbs -- Suburban gothic -- Gender, horror, and the home -- Race, horror, and the home -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"Exploring a crucial yet critically underappreciated trope of horror-the haunted house-Haunted Homes illuminates the ways in which it has come to signify the anxieties, traumas, and terrors of suburban American life. Surprisingly comprehensive and eminently readable, this slim volume establishes beyond a doubt that in movies and television series from The Conjuring to The Haunting of Hill House, "home is where the horror is." Haunted Homes is unique in its focus on what Schweitzer calls the "suburban gothic." Scholarly studies of the supernatural in horror cinema tend to be decidedly ahistorical, suggesting that contemporary films about haunted houses tap into the same fear of the uncanny evoked by eighteenth and nineteenth-century works of European gothic literature. Schweitzer, however, argues that these films are distinctly modern and American, framing them as a dark reflection of suburban life since the 1950s and particularly in the decade following the economic collapse of 2008. Schweitzer undertakes an in-depth examination of the history of suburbia in the United States as well, offering a detailed and informed account of its origins and development. This is a fresh and original approach. It opens up a new way of seeing haunted homes in recent horror cinema and television, setting her book apart from others on the topic. This is consequently a book that will appeal to a wide range of readers, from film scholars and students to fans of the horror genre"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
DAHLIA SCHWEITZER is an associate professor of film and media at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Haunted houses in motion pictures.
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Haunted houses in motion pictures. |
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Suburbs in motion pictures.
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Suburbs in motion pictures. |
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Suburban life in motion pictures.
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Suburban life -- United States.
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Suburban life in motion pictures. |
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United States. |
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Suburban life. |
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PERFORMING ARTS / General. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Schweitzer, Dahlia. Haunted homes. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021] 9781978807730 (DLC) 2020042806 (OCoLC)1196196298 |
| ISBN |
9781978807754 epub |
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1978807759 epub |
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9781978807778 pdf |
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1978807775 pdf |
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9781978807761 mobi |
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1978807767 mobi |
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9781978807747 hardcover |
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1978807740 hardcover |
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9781978807730 paperback |
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1978807732 paperback |
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