04272nam 2200637Ia 450 991079230830332120230725023545.01-62103-104-71-282-55565-097866125556571-60473-454-X(CKB)2670000000029021(EBL)534339(OCoLC)645937908(SSID)ssj0000411673(PQKBManifestationID)11309737(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411673(PQKBWorkID)10357181(PQKB)10684373(StDuBDS)EDZ0000203614(MiAaPQ)EBC534339(MdBmJHUP)muse13556(MiAaPQ)EBC5899764(Au-PeEL)EBL534339(CaPaEBR)ebr10395132(CaONFJC)MIL255565(OCoLC)649473795(EXLCZ)99267000000002902120091120d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican horror film[electronic resource] the genre at the turn of the millennium /edited by Steffen HantkeJackson University Press of Mississippi20101 online resource (286 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61703-830-X 1-60473-453-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.They don't make 'em like they used to: on the rhetoric of crisis and the current state of American horror cinema / Steffen Hantke -- Bloody America: critical reassessments of the trans/-national and of graphic violence. The American horror film? Globalization and transnational U.S.-Asian genres / Christina Klein -- A Parisian in Hollywood: ocular horror in the films of Alexandre Aja / Tony Perrello -- "The pound of flesh which I demand": American horror cinema, gore, and the box office, 1998-2007 / Blair Davis and Kial Natale -- A (post)modern house of pain: FearDotCom and the prehistory of the post-9/11 torture film / Reynold Humphries -- The usual suspects: trends and transformations in the subgenres of American horror film. Teenage traumata: youth, affective politics, and the contemporary American horror film / Pamela Craig and Martin Fradley -- Traumatic childhood now included: Todorov's fantastic and the uncanny slasher remake / Andrew Patrick Nelson -- Whither the serial killer movie? / Philip L. Simpson -- A return to the graveyard: notes on the spiritual horror film / James Kendrick -- Look back in horror: managing the canon of American horror film. Auteurdämmerung: David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the twilight of (North) American horror auteur / Craig Bernardini -- How the masters of horror master their personae: self-fashioning at play in the Masters of horror DVD extras / Ben Kooyman -- "The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s": simulating auras and marketing nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse / Jay McRoy -- Afterword. Memory, genre, and self-narrativization, or, why I should be a more content horror fan / David Church.Creatively spent and politically irrelevant, the American horror film is a mere ghost of its former self-or so goes the old saw from fans and scholars alike. Taking on this undeserved reputation, the contributors to this collection provide a comprehensive look at a decade of cinematic production, covering a wide variety of material from the last ten years with a clear critical eye. Individual essays profile the work of up-and-coming director Alexandre Aja and reassess William Malone's muchmaligned Feardotcom in the light of the torture debate at the end of President George W. Bush's administraHorror filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismMotion picturesUnited StatesHistory and criticismHorror filmsHistory and criticism.Motion picturesHistory and criticism.791.43/617Hantke Steffen1962-1537102MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792308303321American horror film3786227UNINA