Politics of Horror

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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The Politics of Horror features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields—political science, English, communication studies, and others—that explore the connections between horror and politics. In what ways might horror provide a useful lens through which to consider enduring questions in politics and political thought?

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-27
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030420147

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1. "The American Nightmare: Graveyard Voters, Demon Sheep, Devil Women, and Lizard People".- 2. "Horror, Crisis, and Control: Tales of Facing Evils".- "We're Witches and We're Hunting You: Matriarchy and Misogyny in Conjure Wife".- 4. "The Democratic Impulse in Post-Apocalyptic Films".- 5. "Through a Glass Darkly: The Dimensionality and Inadequacy of Political Fear in Stephen King's The Stand".- 6. "The Monsters Among Us: Realism and Constructivism in Vampire: The Masquerade".- 7. "Anxiety in Suburbia: The Politics of Gaming in Neighbourhood 3: Requisition of Doom".- 8. "The Exorcist and a New Kind of American Television Horror".- 9. "Reality TV as Horror: Psychological Terror and Physical Torture".- 10. "Zombie Komiks in a Cacique Democracy: Patay Kung Patay's Undead Revolution".- 11. “...Just as You Will Do to One Another!”: Colonialism that Consumes Itself in Warren Publications’ Creepy”.- 12. “Witches in the South: Past, Present, and in Comics”.- 13. “Bring Him the blood of the outlanders!”: Children of the Corn as Farm Crisis Horror.- 14. “mother! and the Horror of Environmental Abuse”.- 15. “Let the Bodies (of Water) Hit the Floor: Development and Exploitation in John Boorman’s Deliverance”.- 16. “The Mayor of Shark City”: Political Power in Jaws”.- 17. “Fear of Founding from Plato to Poltergeist”.- 18. “Post-Racial Lies and Fear of the Historical-Political Boomerang in Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad”.- 19. “’The Mother Who Eats Her Own’: The Politics of Motherhood in Irish Horror”.- 20. “Frankenstein’s Dream and the Politics of Death”.