| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Horror and gothic media cultures |
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Horror and gothic media cultures
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| Contents |
Introduction: Theorizing the Victim -- Marko Luki. Opening the Gate: Reconfiguring the Child Victim in <cite>Stranger Things</cite> -- Lindsey Scott Black Death: Black Victims in 1980s Teen Slashers -- Todd K. Platts Beyond Binaries: The Position of the Transgender Victim in Horror Narratives -- Irena Jurkovi. Through the Looking-Glass: The Gothic Victim in Jordan Peele's <cite>Us</cite> -- Ljubica Matek Postmortem Victimhood: Necrovalue in <cite>Phantasm</cite> and <cite>Dead and Buried</cite> -- Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns The Sad Killer -- Perpetuating Spaces, Trauma and Violence Within the Slasher Genre -- Marko Luki. "If this is the last thing you see... that means I died": A Taxonomy of Camera-Operating Victims in Found Footage Horror Films -- Peter Turner Victimhood and Rhetorical Dialectics within Clive Barker's Faustian Fiction -- Gavin F. Hurley Pain Index, Plain Suffering and Blood Measure: A Victimology of Driving Safety Films, 1955-1975 -- Michael Stock Biolithic Horror: Stone Victim/Victimisers in <cite>Resident Evil Village</cite> -- Merlin Seller The Potential Victim: Horror Roleplaying Games and the Cruelty of Things -- Ian Downes Bibliography Filmography |
| Summary |
Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to become invisible-the threat of horror implies the need for a victim, whose function never alters, often becoming a blank slate for audiences to project their desires and fears onto. This volume seeks to make explicit the concept of the victim within horror media and to examine their position in more detail, demonstrating that the necessity of their appearance within the genre does not equate to a simplicity of definition. The chapters within this volume cover a number of topics and approaches, examining sources from literature, film, TV, and games (both analogue and digital) to show the pervasiveness of horror's victims, as well as the variety of their guises |
| Analysis |
Film, Media, and Communication |
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FMC |
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Art and Material Culture |
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ART & MAT |
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Cultural Studies |
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CULTURAL |
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Fan and Audience Studies |
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FAN & AUD |
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Media Studies |
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MEDIA |
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Horror studies, victim, audience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 13, 2024) |
| Subject |
Victims in motion pictures.
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Horror films -- History and criticism
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Film: styles and genres.
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Classic horror and ghost stories.
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FICTION / Horror.
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FICTION / Gothic.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
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Film, television, radio genres: Science fiction, fantasy and horror.
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Contemporary horror and ghost stories.
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Cultural and media studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoedt, Madelon, 1985- editor
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Lukić, Marko, editor
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| ISBN |
9048555140 |
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9789048555147 |
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