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Authors: Fred Botting
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-19 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Horror isn’t what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred
Elder Horror
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Cynthia J. Miller
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-08 - Publisher: McFarland

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As baby boomers gray, cinematic depictions of aging and the aged are on the rise. In the horror genre, fears of growing old take on fantastic proportions. Elder
Urban Horror
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Erin Y. Huang
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-28 - Publisher: Duke University Press Books

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In Urban Horror Erin Y. Huang theorizes the economic, cultural, and political conditions of neoliberal post-socialist China. Drawing on Marxist phenomenology, g
The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature
Language: en
Pages: 534
Authors: Kevin Corstorphine
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-07 - Publisher: Springer

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This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sec
Powers of Horror
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Julia Kristeva
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-26 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the natu