Horror and Philosophy

Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvSubashish Bhattacharjee,Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

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Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an "alien" reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging "known" concepts such as normality, reality, family and animals. Both making strange what was previously familiar, philosophy and horror feed each other. This edited collection investigates the intersections of horror and philosophical thinking, spanning across media including literature, cinema and television. Topics covered include the cinema of David Lynch; Scream and Alien: Resurrection; the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges and H. P. Lovecraft; horror authors Blake Crouch and Paul Tremblay; Indian film; the television series Atlanta; and the horror comic book Dylan Dog. Philosophers discussed include Julia Kristeva, George Berkeley, Michel Foucault, and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. Using philosophies like posthumanism, Afro-Pessimism and others, it explores connections between nightmare allegories, postmodern fragmentation, the ahuman sublime and much more.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-17
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt376 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor283
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9781476687605

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Subashish BhattacharjeePart 1: Postmodernist StorytellingThe Rhetoric of Contemplative Horror: Inquiry, Discovery, and OptimismGavin F. HurleyNightmare Allegory: Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!Brian BremsInland Empire and Reconciling Postmodern FragmentationDennin Ellis“It’s all a movie”: Postmodern Parody, Media, and Violence in ScreamDouglas RasmussenPart 2: Literary Horrors, Philosophical InquiriesThe Disembodied Voice and Its Digital Dreaming: CCRU as Philosopher(s?) and AuthorSara PowellBorges’s Defense of Berkeley’s Idealism in “There Are More Things”Andrés Torres-ScottHorror of Decision-Making: Aspects of Peter Zapffe’s Existential Pessimism in Blake Crouch’s Dark MatterMaria LehtimäkiEpistemologies of Horror and Narrative Construction: Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, Scott Thomas’s Kill Creek, and Clay McLeod Chapman’s The RemakingAlissa BurgerPart 3: Subhuman, Animality, Colonialism—The Horrors of the OtherThe Horror of X: Speculative Virontology and the Ahuman Sublime in Todd Verow’s BottomAndrija FilipovićFour Men Before the Imminent: Death and Heroism in Bone TomahawkEmiliano AguilarGreed Is NOT Good: A Historical Materialist Reading of Two Indian Films: Rahi Anil Barve’s Tumbbad and Satyajit Ray’s MoniharaJoe Varghese Yeldho, Amarjeet Nayak, and Mehboobun Nahar MilkyThe Lure of Folk Horror: Ari Aster’s MidsommarPriyanka KapoorEntering the Ecosystem: Human Identity, Biology, and HorrorOctavia CadePosthumanism, Sexism: Animalizing Ripley in Alien: ResurrectionFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsPart 4: Seriality—Comics, Television, ShortsThe Black Universes of Donald Glover and Hiro Murai: Woke Horror Cinema, Existential Pessimisms, and the Shadowy Speculations of Blackness in “This Is America” and AtlantaDavid John BoydMoral Relativism and the Horror of Self in Season 2 of AMC’s The Walking DeadScott PearceThe Horror Versus L’Indagatore dell’Incubo: The Dionysian Irrational, and Absurd in Dylan Dog’s NarrativeMarco FavaroBody Horror Behind the Wheel: Mapping the Aesthetics of the Driving Safety Gore Film in HorrorMichael StockAbout the ContributorsIndex