| Description |
xi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary approaches to film and television series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and television series.
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| Contents |
I. THE DYNAMICS OF CROSS-CULTURAL HORROR EXCHANGE -- Blood and black gloves on shiny discs: new media, old tastes, and the remediation of Italian horror films in the United States / Raiford Guins -- Importation/mexploitation, or, How a crime-fighting, vampire-slaying Mexican wrestler almost found himself in an Italian sword-and-sandals epic / Andrew Syder, Dolores Tierney -- The dialogue with American popular culture in two German films about the serial killer / Steffen Hantke -- II. HAUNTING HISTORIES AND REGIONAL GOTHICS -- The return of history as horror: Qnibaba and the atomic bomb / Jyotsna Kapur -- "Terror Australis": areas of horror in the Australian cinema / Jonathan Rayner -- Kiwi gothic: New Zealand's cinema of a perilous paradise / Ian Conrich -- Irish horror: Neil Jordan and the Anglo-Irish gothic / Brian McIlroy -- Thailand haunted: the power of the past in the contemporary Thai horror film / Adam Knee -- III. HORROR IN THE SOCIAL REALM -- The Spanish horror film as subversive text: Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino / Andrew Willis -- Genre bending and gender bonding: masculinity and repression in Dutch "thriller" cinema / Steven Jay Schneider, Kevin W. Sweeney -- Hong Kong social horror: tragedy and farce in Category 3 / Tony Williams -- Beyond Dracula and Ceausescu: phenomenology of horror in Romanian cinema / Christina Stojanova -- Snapping up schoolgirls: legitimation crisis in recent Canadian horror / Suzie Young -- IV. CONTESTED HORROR TRADITIONS -- Beyond the genre formula: implicit horror in the films of Jan Švankmajer / Jan Uhde -- Egypt: a cinema without horror? / Viola Shafik -- Burn, witch, burn: a first look at the Scandinavian horror film / Rebecca A. Umland, Samuel J. Umland -- Man bites dog and the critical reception of Belgian horror (in) cinema / Ernest Mathijs -- Exorcising the devil: Russian cinema and horror / Josephine Woll |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Horror films -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-
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Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11-
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| LC no. |
2004017352 |
| ISBN |
0814331009 (alk. paper) |
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9780814331002 (alk. paper) |
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0814331017 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780814331019 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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