French Horror

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Industry, Society and Media

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

1 479 kr

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French Horror: Industry, Society and Media provides an overview of French horror film and television of the 21st century, exploring the particularities of the genre on both an industrial and a theoretical basis to identify an essential ‘Frenchness’.The book argues that there are a number of distinct production, formal and socio-cultural characteristics present in these works that mark them as uniquely French, including, among others, critical suspicion of homegrown horror and a corresponding lack of industrial support, attempts to evoke auteurism in certain creative figures, reference to key moments of French history, the framing of body horror and violence and the use of the banlieues.Through a series of close readings of both major and lesser-known texts, French Horror: Industry, Society and Media illustrates a rise in horror in the 21st century that is distinctly and unapologetically French.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Serie21st Century Horror
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399557160

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Reece Goodall is a Director of Student Experience at the University of Warwick, where he completed a PhD thesis comprising an industrial and theoretical analysis of contemporary French horror cinema. He has previously written for French Screen Studies, Horror Studies and Animation Studies, and is the author of the forthcoming monograph French Horror: Industry, Society and Media and the editor of the forthcoming Horror Spoofs and Parody: Dying of Laughter.

AcknowledgementsList of Figures1. Introduction2. The Limited History of French Horror3. New Avenues of Distribution4. Looking Forward Through Looking Back: Historicizing French Horror5. Genre and Nation in the Works of Alexandre Aja6. Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo: Monstrous Mothers and Spaces of Horror7. Gender and the Body in the Film sof Julia Ducournau and Coralie Fargeat8. Race and the banlieues9. Horror Naturelle10. Lapsing Identities and the Fear of Vanishing Frenchness11. ConclusionApendixReferences