| Description |
xiii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-399) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the field of horror / Ken Gelder -- Definition of the fantastic / Tzvetan Todorov -- 1848: the assault on reason (extract) / Jose B. Monleon -- Phantasmagoria and the metaphorics of modern reverie (extract) / Terry Castle -- Vampires, breast-feeding, and anxiety (extract) / Joan Copjec -- Kristeva, feminity, abjection / Barbara Creed -- 'In his bold gaze my ruin is writ large' (extract) / Slavoj Zizek -- Introduction to monstrous imagination / Marie-Helene Huet -- Freaks / Mary Russo -- The serial killer as a type of person (extract) / Mark Seltzer -- Production and reproduction : the case of Frankenstein (extract) / Paul O'Flynn -- Here comes the bride : wedding gender and race in Bride of Frankenstein (extract) / Elizabeth Young -- Dialectic of fear (extract) / Franco Moretti -- The occidental tourist : Dracula and the anxiety of reverse colonization (extract) / Stephen D. Arata -- Vampiric typewriting : Dracula and its media (extract) / Jennifer Wicke -- Dr Jekyll's closet (extract) / Elaine Showalter -- Tracking the vampire (extract) / Sue-Ellen Case -- Female spectator, lesbian specter : The Haunting (extract) / Patricia White -- Vampires in Greece (extract) / Ken Gelder -- King Kong and the monster in ethnographic cinema (extract) / Fatimah Tobing Rony -- Introduction to American horrors (extract) / Gregory A. Waller -- Introduction to American gothic (extract) / Teresa A. Goddu -- Horrality-the textuality of contemporary horror films / Philip Brophy -- The terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski -- Her body, herself (extract) / Carol J. Clover -- Fans' notes : the horror film fanzine / David Sanjek -- A (sadistic) night at the Opera : notes on the Italian horror film / Leon Hunt -- Revenge of the Leech woman : on the dread of aging in a low-budget horror film / Vivian Sobchack -- Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory / Graham Huggan -- Preposterous Hong Kong horror : Rouge's (be)hindsight and a (sodomitical) Chinese ghost story / Andre Yue. |
| Subject |
Horror tales -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales. |
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Horror films. |
| Added Author |
Gelder, Ken, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0415213568 paperback alkaline paper |
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041521355X hardback alkaline paper |
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