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Description

1. viii, 277 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

1. This volume provides an introduction to horror in compact and accessible essays, from classics such as Stanley Kubrick's The Shining to contemporary throwbacks like the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things. Beginning with the philosophical and historical background of horror, this book touches upon seminal figures such as Poe, Lovecraft, Quiroga, Jackson, King and Suzuki and engages with the evolution of the genre across old and new media from literature, art and comics to film, gaming and social media. Alongside this is a consideration of established and emerging areas like smart horror (Jordan Peele's Get Out), queer horror (Brad Falchuk's American Horror Story), eco-horror (Alex Garland's Annihilation), horror video games (P.T.) and African American horror (Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer: Stories). This volume provides an invaluable resource for experts, students and general readers alike for further understanding the horror genre and the ways it is developing into the future.

Series statement

1. Genre fiction and film companions ; [v. 3]

Uniform title

1. Genre fiction and film companions ; 3.

Subject

1. Horror television programs
2. Horror fiction
3. Horror tales > History and criticism
4. Horror television programs > History and criticism
5. Horror in literature
6. Criticism, interpretation, etc
7. Horror films > History and criticism

Genre/Form

1. Horror fiction.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Approaches to Horror. Murray Leeder: David Robert Mitchell's It Follows (2014): The Limits of Knowledge -- Gerry Canavan: Dan Trachtenberg's 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016): Inconceivable Horror -- Xavier Aldana Reyes: Jaume Balagueró and Pavo Plaza's [Rec] (2007): The Affective Approach to Horror -- Darren Elliot-Smith: Brad Falchuk's American Horror Story (2011-present): Queer Horror and Performative Pleasure -- II: Media and Mediums of Horror. Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott: Victor Fresco's Santa Clarita Diet (2017-present): Television Horror -- Julia Round: Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key: Heaven and Earth (2017): Horror Comics -- Christian McCrea: Kojima Productions' P.T. (2014): The Game of Horror -- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982) and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980):The Sound of Horror -- Alexandra Heller-Nicholas: Joseph DeLage's and Troy Wagner's Marble Hornets (2009-14): New Media Horror -- Categories of Contemporary Horror. Steven Jones: Spierig Brothers' Saw: Legacy (2017): Torture Porn Rebooted? -- Elizabeth Parker: Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018): Eco-horror -- Thomas Fahy: The Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things (2016-present):Horror and Nostalgia -- Steffen Hantke: Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014): Science Fiction and Horror -- Stacey Abbott: James DeMonaco's The Purge: Anarchy (2014): Post-millennial Horror -- Stephanie Graves: Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017): Smart Horror -- National and Cross-Cultural Horror in the Twenty-first Century. Tracy Fahey: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's The League of Gentlemen (1999-2017): Contemporary Folk Horror -- Ian Olney: Julia Ducournau's Raw (2016): Euro Horror -- Kasia Ancuta: Sadako Yamamura's Ring Cycle (1991-present): Asian Horror -- Cristina Santos: Mariana Enriquez's Things We Lost in the Fire (2009/2017): Argentinian Horror -- Gina Wisker: Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer: Stories (2015): African-American Horror -- Gail de Vos and Kayla Larson: Cowboy Smith's The Candy Meister (2014): First Nations Horror -- Meheli Sen: Prosit Roy's Pari (2018): Bollywood Horror -- Dana Och: Jalmari Helander's Rare Exports (2003-10): Transnational Horror -- Horror Authors and their Contemporary Afterlives. Dara Downey: Laeta Kalogridis's Altered Carbon (2018-present): Edgar Allan Poe -- Carl H. Sederholm: Crafteon's Cosmic Reawakening (2017): H. P. Lovecraft -- Todd S. Garth: Damián Szifron's Relatos salvajes (2014): Horacio Quiroga -- Kristopher Woofter: Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Drowning Girl (2012): Shirley Jackson -- Simon Brown: Stephen King's Full Dark No Stars (2010): Stephen King.

Call number

1. JFE 19-10032

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Bacon, Simon, 1965- author.

Title

1. Horror : a companion / Simon Bacon.

Publisher

1. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Genre fiction and film companions ; [v. 3]
2. Genre fiction and film companions ; 3.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2019005212

ISBN

1. 9781787079199 (alk. paper)
2. 1787079198

Research call number

1. JFE 19-10032