Autore	Blake Linnie
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Manchester ; ; New York : , : Manchester University Press, , c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (233 pages)
Disciplina	791.436164
Soggetto topico	Horror films - History and criticism National characteristics in motion pictures Motion pictures and history ART - Film & Video
Soggetto non controllato	German Reunification body horror genocide hillbilly horror horror cinema political change post-Thatcherite masculinity supernaturalism traumatic events war
ISBN	1-78170-091-5 1-84779-162-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring -- The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. 'Consumed out of the good land' : George A. Romero's horror of the 1970s ; All hail to the serial killer : America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond -- From Vietnam to 9/11 : the orientalist other and the American poor white. 'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11 -- New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. Zombies, dog men and dragon : generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium.
Altri titoli varianti	Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910819988803321