Haunted histories and troubled pasts twenty-first century screen horror and the historical imagination / edited by Amanda Howell and Stephanie Green.
| Other author | Howell, Amanda. |
| Other author | Green, Stephanie, 1959- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. |
| Description | xii, 266 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : history, historiography and horror in the twenty-first century / Amanda Howell and Stephanie Green -- Ghosts, vampires and sacrilege in Warwick Thornton's The darkside, Firebite and The new boy / Felicity Collins -- Undead heritage : environmental trauma and curses that never die in Takashi Shimizu's 'Village' trilogy / Simon Bacon -- Deferred demons : diasporizing the haunted home in Babak Anvari's Under the shadow / David Ellison and Zach Karpinellison -- 'It's too late for all of us' : ritual, repression and the historical imagination in Noroi : the curse / Jeremy Kingston -- Congruent apprehensions of history in Irish horror cinema / Stephen Joyce -- Lace collars and cowboy cravats : gothic time-travelling with Penny dreadful and The nevers / Stephanie Green -- Pretty ballads, bastard truths : history, memory and the past in The Witcher / Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska -- 'Brings back some memories' : spectres of history in Twin Peaks : the return / Martin Fradley and John A. Riley -- 'We're Americans' : remembering the 'other America' in Jordan Peele's Us / Amanda Howell -- 'Cut them up' : Lily Frankenstein, Valerie Solanas and the reanimation of radical feminism in Penny dreadful / Anthea Taylor -- 'Laden with human flesh' : dying breed and Australia's engagement with its convict past / Clare Burnett -- Killing private zombie : overlord and the twenty-first century military horror film / Brian E. Crim -- Post-socialist body horror(s) : on exhaustion and social death in The life and death of a Porno Gang and a Serbian film / Andrija Filipović. |
| Abstract | "Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts demonstrates how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past. The essays address 21st-century screen horror's fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present. They are concerned with the historical work of horror's spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed social identities, as well as the ruptures and impositions of colonization and nationhood"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023043100 |
| ISBN | 9781501394409 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781501394447 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |