The
wounds of nations
horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity
Blake, Linnie.
creator
ebrary, Inc
text
bibliography
Electronic books.
enk
Manchester
New York
Manchester University Press
c2008
2008
monographic
eng
vi, 223 p.
German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : J�org 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.
Linnie Blake.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.
Includes filmography.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Horror films
History and criticism
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