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" American horror film : "
edited by Steffen Hantke.
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BL
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955557
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b709927
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American horror film : : the genre at the turn of the millennium /\ edited by Steffen Hantke.
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| Publication Statement
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Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xxxii, 253 pages) :: illustrations
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1282555650
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: 160473454X
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: 1621031047
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: 9781282555655
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: 9781604734546
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: 9781621031048
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: 9786612555657
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1604734531
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9781604734539
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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They don't make 'em like they used to: on the rhetoric of crisis and the current state of American horror cinema / Steffen Hantke -- Bloody America: critical reassessments of the trans/-national and of graphic violence. The American horror film? Globalization and transnational U.S.-Asian genres / Christina Klein -- A Parisian in Hollywood: ocular horror in the films of Alexandre Aja / Tony Perrello -- "The pound of flesh which I demand": American horror cinema, gore, and the box office, 1998-2007 / Blair Davis and Kial Natale -- A (post)modern house of pain: FearDotCom and the prehistory of the post-9/11 torture film / Reynold Humphries -- The usual suspects: trends and transformations in the subgenres of American horror film. Teenage traumata: youth, affective politics, and the contemporary American horror film / Pamela Craig and Martin Fradley -- Traumatic childhood now included: Todorov's fantastic and the uncanny slasher remake / Andrew Patrick Nelson -- Whither the serial killer movie? / Philip L. Simpson -- A return to the graveyard: notes on the spiritual horror film / James Kendrick -- Look back in horror: managing the canon of American horror film. Auteurdämmerung: David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the twilight of (North) American horror auteur / Craig Bernardini -- How the masters of horror master their personae: self-fashioning at play in the Masters of horror DVD extras / Ben Kooyman -- "The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s": simulating auras and marketing nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse / Jay McRoy -- Afterword. Memory, genre, and self-narrativization, or, why I should be a more content horror fan / David Church.
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Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self - or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye. Taken together, the contributors to this collection make a case that American horror cinema is as vital, creative, and thought-provoking as it ever was.
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Horror films-- United States-- History and criticism.
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Horror films.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- History Criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- Reference.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/617
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PN1995.9.H6A385 2010eb
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| Added Entry
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Hantke, Steffen,1962-
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