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Record Nr.

UNINA9910407722703321

Titolo

The Politics of Horror / / edited by Damien K. Picariello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030420154

3030420159

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 282 pages)

Disciplina

808.838738

320

Soggetti

Political science

Film genres

Popular culture

Goth culture (Subculture)

Fiction

Political Theory

Genre Studies

Popular Culture

Gothic Studies

Fiction Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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”.

Sommario/riassunto

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. How might resources drawn from the study of politics inform our readings of, and conversations about, horror? In what ways might horror provide a useful lens through which to consider enduring questions in politics and political thought? And what insights might be drawn from horror as we consider contemporary political issues? In turning to horror, the contributors to this volume offer fresh provocations to inform a broad range of discussions of politics. Damien K. Picariello is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA.