The philosophy of horror
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Glavni autori: | Fahy, Thomas Richard (Editor), Nickel, Philip J. (Author), Tallon, Philip, Morris, Jeremy, O'Hara, Jessica, Kind, Amy, Russell, Lorena, Lutz, John, Cantor, Paul A., Cokal, Susann, Gross, Robert F., Hall, Ann C., Johnston, David MacGregor |
Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
Jezik: | eng |
Impresum: |
Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
cop. 2010.
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Nakladnička cjelina: |
Philosophy of popular culture.
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Sadržaj:
- Introduction / Thomas Fahy
- Horror and the idea of everyday life: on skeptical threats in Psycho and The birds / Philip J. Nickel
- Through a mirror, darkly: art-horror as a medium for moral reflection / Philip Tallon
- The justification of torture-horror: retribution and sadism in Saw, Hostel, and The devil's rejects / Jeremy Morris
- Hobbes, human nature, and the culture of American violence in Truman Capote's In cold blood / Thomas Fahy
- Making their presence known: TV's ghost-hunter phenomenon in a "post-" world / Jessica O'Hara
- The vampire with a soul: Angel and the quest for identity / Amy Kind
- Ideological formations of the nuclear family in The hills have eyes / Lorena Russell
- Zombies of the world, unite: class struggle and alienation in Land of the dead / John Lutz
- The fall of the house of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the gothic vision of The black cat / Paul A. Cantor
- From domestic nightmares to the nightmare of history: uncanny eruptions of violence in King's and Kubrick's versions of The Shining / John Lutz
- "Hot with rapture and cold with fear": grotesque, sublime, and postmodern transformations in Patrick Süskind's Perfume / Susann Cokal
- Shock value: a deleuzean Encounter with James Purdy's Narrow rooms / Robert F. Gross
- Making monsters: the philosophy of reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universal Films Frankenstein and The bride of Frankenstein / Ann C. Hall
- Kitsch and camp and things that go bump in the night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (horror) movies / David MacGregor Johnston.