Horror Comes Home

Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focusing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of twenty scholarly volumes, many exploring the horror genre. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction (Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper)I. Uncanny SpacesRomping with Freud in the Pink Palace: Abjection, the Uncanny and the Victorian Feminine in Henry Selick’s Coraline (2009) (Sue Matheson)Guillermo del Toro’s Home for Horrified Orphans (William M. Crouch)This House Is Ours: Haunting the Self in Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others (Ismael Ibáñez-Rosales and Anabel ­Altemir-Giral)Inside the Box: Home, Horror and Helplessness in Demon Seed (A. Bowdoin Van Riper)II. Dark LegaciesGhost Karma: The Winchester House as Spiritual Reparation (Thomas Robert Argiro)The House That White Privilege Built: Jordan Peele’s Get Out and the Haunting Legacy of Plantation Slavery (Cammie M. Sublette)Haunted Suburbs, Missing Children and the ­Reagan-Era Bogeyman: Stalking Gothumentary Catharsis in Cropsey (Ruth Goldberg)Feminism’s Reoccurring Nightmare: Monstrous Patriarchy, Pulp Horror and The Stepford Wives (Ruth Wollersheim)Fractured Heroines, Traumatic Pasts: Traversing the Haunted Homes of Horror (Nina K. Martin)III. Troubled Minds and Bodies Television Killed the Video Star: How A&E’s Bates Motel Explains the Shock of Hitchcock’s Psycho as a Realist Account of Daily Life in Late Capitalism (David Anshen)Home Invasions: Masculine Spaces and the Mind in Manhunter (Brian Brems)Shallow Focus: Trawling the Gothic Undercurrents of Lake Mungo(Duncan Hubber)The Horror of the Circus: Exhibiting Disability in Freaks (1932) and American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014) (Tatiana Prorokova)IV. Insidious Threats“We never knew you lived in the block”: The White Mother and Black Male Sexual Violence in Attack the Block (Bart Bishop)Coming Home to Horror in Insidious: The Last Key (Cynthia J. Miller)You Saw Me, Didn’t You? The Horror of the Mediated Eye in the Occult Horror Ringu Franchise (Senjo Nakai)The Stranger in the House: Interwar Crisis Comes Home in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)(Thomas Prasch)“Lamento lo que va a ocurrir aquí”: The Place(lessness) of Youth in Mexico in Carlos Enrique Taboada’s Más negro que la noche (Phillip Serrato)About the ContributorsIndex