Dark forces at work : essays on social dynamics and cinematic horrors /: essays on social dynamics and cinematic horrors. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cynthia J. Miller, and A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
• Editors: Miller, Cynthia J, 1958-; Van Riper, A. Bowdoin
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I NATIONAL IDENTITY: HAUNTING THE HOMELAND; Chapter One Ringing Home, Missed Calls, and Unbroken Land-Lines; Chapter Two Redefining the Heimat; Chapter Three Korean National Trauma and the Myth of Hypermasculinity in The Wailing (2016); Chapter Four The Witch, the Wolf, and the Monster; Part II MARKET FORCES AND THEIR MONSTERS; Chapter Five Recession Horror; Chapter Six Classism and Horror in the 1970s; Chapter Seven All against All; Chapter Eight Motor City Gothic; Part III IDEOLOGY: YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE Chapter Nine Gothic Neoliberalism in 1980s British Horror CinemaChapter Ten Infringing on Cycles of Oppression; Chapter Eleven Faith as Confinement; Part IV HISTORY NEVER DIES; Chapter Twelve The Pursuit of Certainty; Chapter Thirteen "Nothing Is What It Seems"; Chapter Fourteen "Tens of Thousands of Men Died Here"; Chapter Fifteen Peril, Imprisonment, and the Power of Place in Jordan Peele's Get Out; Chapter Sixteen The Hovel Condemned; Chapter Seventeen Coming Home to Horror; Chapter Eighteen It Follows and the Uncertainties of the Middle Class Chapter Nineteen "We're All in Our Private Traps"Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43/6164; Horror films -- History and criticism; Monsters in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Horror films; Monsters in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Social aspects; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498588560; 1498588565
• Related ISBNs: 9781498588553
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 09, 2019).
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