Horror A Companion
Horror A Companion by Simon Bacon, published by Peter Lang in 2019, is a comprehensive exploration of contemporary horror across various media. This new edition spans 277 pages and is presented in English. The book delves into a range of topics within the horror genre, including film, television, literature, and performance, providing critical insights into notable works and their cultural significance.
Readers will find a collection of essays that examine the evolution and impact of horror, featuring analyses of films like “It Follows” and “Get Out,” as well as television series such as “American Horror Story.” The contributors discuss themes such as eco-horror, queer horror, and the intersection of horror with nostalgia and cultural identity. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in the literary criticism of horror and its manifestations in various forms of media, making it a pertinent addition to the discourse surrounding horror and supernatural narratives.
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Approaches to Horror. Murray Leeder: David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows (2014): The Limits of Knowledge — Gerry Canavan: Dan Trachtenberg’s 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016): Inconceivable Horror — Xavier Aldana Reyes: Jaume Balagueró and Pavo Plaza’s [Rec] (2007): The Affective Approach to Horror — Darren Elliot-Smith: Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story (2011-present): Queer Horror and Performative Pleasure — II: Media and Mediums of Horror. Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott: Victor Fresco’s Santa Clarita Diet (2017-present): Television Horror — Julia Round: Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s Locke & Key: Heaven and Earth (2017): Horror Comics — Christian McCrea: Kojima Productions’ P.T. (2014): The Game of Horror — Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock: Michael Jackson’s Thriller (1982) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980):The Sound of Horror — Alexandra Heller-Nicholas: Joseph DeLage’s and Troy Wagner’s Marble Hornets (2009-14): New Media Horror — Categories of Contemporary Horror. Steven Jones: Spierig Brothers’ Saw: Legacy (2017): Torture Porn Rebooted? — Elizabeth Parker: Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018): Eco-horror — Thomas Fahy: The Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things (2016-present):Horror and Nostalgia — Steffen Hantke: Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014): Science Fiction and Horror — Stacey Abbott: James DeMonaco’s The Purge: Anarchy (2014): Post-millennial Horror — Stephanie Graves: Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017): Smart Horror — National and Cross-Cultural Horror in the Twenty-first Century. Tracy Fahey: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s The League of Gentlemen (1999-2017): Contemporary Folk Horror — Ian Olney: Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016): Euro Horror — Kasia Ancuta: Sadako Yamamura’s Ring Cycle (1991-present): Asian Horror — Cristina Santos: Mariana Enriquez’s Things We Lost in the Fire (2009/2017): Argentinian Horror — Gina Wisker: Tananarive Due’s Ghost Summer: Stories (2015): African-American Horror — Gail de Vos and Kayla Larson: Cowboy Smith’s The Candy Meister (2014): First Nations Horror — Meheli Sen: Prosit Roy’s Pari (2018): Bollywood Horror — Dana Och: Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports (2003-10): Transnational Horror — Horror Authors and their Contemporary Afterlives. Dara Downey: Laeta Kalogridis’s Altered Carbon (2018-present): Edgar Allan Poe — Carl H. Sederholm: Crafteon’s Cosmic Reawakening (2017): H. P. Lovecraft — Todd S. Garth: Damián Szifron’s Relatos salvajes (2014): Horacio Quiroga — Kristopher Woofter: Caitlin R. Kiernan’s The Drowning Girl (2012): Shirley Jackson — Simon Brown: Stephen King’s Full Dark No Stars (2010): Stephen King.
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