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Horror International

Steven Jay Schneider,Tony Williams
Horror International Book PDF

Author : Steven Jay Schneider,Tony Williams
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814331017

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Horror International by Steven Jay Schneider,Tony Williams Pdf

As global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before. However, this does not mean denying the existence of national features that affect and are reflected in horror films, whether from an artistic or a reception standpoint. Horror is one of the most studied genres in cinema, yet none of the many books on the subject focus on films or traditions outside the United States or the United Kingdom. While Italian, Japanese, Mexican, German, and Hong Kong horror films have received a modicum of critical recognition, the areas of Egyptian, Romanian, Belgian, Dutch, New Zealand, and Thai horror all still need-in fact, demand-some attention. Horror International seeks to rectify this by giving the global perspectives and cross-cultural dynamics of world horror cinema its due. This groundbreaking collection of eighteen original essays examine a myriad of films, showing how each draws from Hollywood horror conventions and also local cinematic traditions, local folklore, and national historical and cultural concerns. The production, marketing, and reception of various national cinemas are also addressed, demonstrating how these films are understood by different audiences worldwide. This in turn sheds new light on the original cultural production of many works and their subsequent "translations" and meanings in different national contexts. The diverse and highly informative essays in Horror International will engross both scholars and fans of horror films and finally illuminate the distinct multicultural factors of this exciting cinematic genre.

International Horror Film Directors

Danny Shipka,Ralph Beliveau
International Horror Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Danny Shipka,Ralph Beliveau
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Horror films
ISBN : 1783206535

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International Horror Film Directors by Danny Shipka,Ralph Beliveau Pdf

Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together a group of scholars to explore the ways that this fear is utilized and played upon by a wide range of filmmakers. Contributors take up such major figures as Guillermo del Toro, Lars Von Trier, and David Cronenberg, and they also offer introductions to lesser-known talents such as Richard Franklin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Juan López Moctezuma, and Alexandre Aja. Scholars and fans alike dipping into this collection will discover plenty of insight into what chills us.

Global Horror Cinema Today

Jon Towlson
Global Horror Cinema Today Book PDF

Author : Jon Towlson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476643526

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Global Horror Cinema Today by Jon Towlson Pdf

The horror film is thriving worldwide. Filmmakers in countries as diverse as the USA, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, Great Britain, Iran, and South Korea are using the horror genre to address the emerging fears and anxieties of their cultures. This book investigates horror cinema around the globe with an emphasis on how the genre has developed in the past ten years. It closely examines 28 international films, including It Follows (2014), Grave (Raw, 2016), Busanhaeng (Train to Busan, 2016), and Get Out (2016), with discussions of dozens more. Each chapter focuses on a different country, analyzing what frightens the people of these various nations and the ways in which horror crosses over to international audiences.

Global TV Horror

Stacey Abbott,Lorna Jowett
Global TV Horror Book PDF

Author : Stacey Abbott,Lorna Jowett
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786836953

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Global TV Horror by Stacey Abbott,Lorna Jowett Pdf

In an era fascinated by horror, this book examines some of the most significant global TV horror, from children’s television and classic series to contemporary shows taking advantage of streaming and on-demand to reach audiences around the world.

Global Horror Cinema Today

Jon Towlson
Global Horror Cinema Today Book PDF

Author : Jon Towlson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476671536

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Global Horror Cinema Today by Jon Towlson Pdf

The horror film is thriving worldwide. Filmmakers in countries as diverse as the USA, Australia, Israel, Spain, France, Great Britain, Iran, and South Korea are using the horror genre to address the emerging fears and anxieties of their cultures. This book investigates horror cinema around the globe with an emphasis on how the genre has developed in the past ten years. It closely examines 28 international films, including It Follows (2014), Grave (Raw, 2016), Busanhaeng (Train to Busan, 2016), and Get Out (2016), with discussions of dozens more. Each chapter focuses on a different country, analyzing what frightens the people of these various nations and the ways in which horror crosses over to international audiences.

Global Powers of Horror

Francois Debrix
Global Powers of Horror Book PDF

Author : Francois Debrix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317533825

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Global Powers of Horror by Francois Debrix Pdf

Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror’s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror’s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror’s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror’s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of post-human, non-human, and inhuman fragmentation. Through several contemporary instances of dismantling of human bodies and pulverization of body parts, this book makes several interrelated theoretical contributions. It works with contemporary post-(geo)political figures of horror—faces of concentration camp dwellers, body parts of victims of terror attacks, the outcome of suicide bombings, graphic reports of beheadings, re-compositions of melted and mingled remnants of non-human and human matter after 9/11—to challenge regimes of terror and security that seek to forcefully and ideologically reaffirm a biopolitics and thanatopolitics of human life in order to anchor today’s often devastating deployments of the metaphysics of substance. Critically enabling one to see how security and terror form a (geo)political continuum of violent mobilization, utilization, and often destruction of human and non-human bodies and lives, this book will be of interest to graduates and scholars of bio politics, international relations and security studies.

Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature

Mark A. Fabrizi
Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature Book PDF

Author : Mark A. Fabrizi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538166055

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Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature by Mark A. Fabrizi Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries covering authors, subgenres, tropes, awards, organizations, and important terms related to horror.,

Spanish Horror Film

Antonio Lazaro-Reboll
Spanish Horror Film Book PDF

Author : Antonio Lazaro-Reboll
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748670628

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Spanish Horror Film by Antonio Lazaro-Reboll Pdf

An original new study of Spanish horror film.

Transnational Horror Across Visual Media

Dana Och,Kirsten Strayer
Transnational Horror Across Visual Media Book PDF

Author : Dana Och,Kirsten Strayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136744914

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Transnational Horror Across Visual Media by Dana Och,Kirsten Strayer Pdf

This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts. Perhaps more than any other genre, horror is characterized by its ability to be simultaneously aware of the local while able to permeate national boundaries, to function on both regional and international registers. The essays here explore political models and allegories, questions of cult or subcultural media and their distribution practices, the relationship between regional or cultural networks, and the legibility of international horror iconography across distinct media. The book underscores how a discussion of contemporary international horror is not only about genre but about how genre can inform theories of visual cultures and the increasing permeability of their borders.

New Israeli Horror

Olga Gershenson
New Israeli Horror Book PDF

Author : Olga Gershenson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978837867

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New Israeli Horror by Olga Gershenson Pdf

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world. Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre. A companion website to this book is available at https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/ (https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/) Book trailer: https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw)

Japanese Horror Culture

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Subashish Bhattacharjee,Ananya Saha
Japanese Horror Culture Book PDF

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Subashish Bhattacharjee,Ananya Saha
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793647061

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Japanese Horror Culture by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns,Subashish Bhattacharjee,Ananya Saha Pdf

This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.

Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes

Valerie Wee
Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes Book PDF

Author : Valerie Wee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134109692

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Japanese Horror Films and their American Remakes by Valerie Wee Pdf

The Ring (2002)—Hollywood’s remake of the Japanese cult success Ringu (1998)—marked the beginning of a significant trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s of American adaptations of Asian horror films. This book explores this complex process of adaptation, paying particular attention to the various transformations that occur when texts cross cultural boundaries. Through close readings of a range of Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes, this study addresses the social, cultural, aesthetic and generic features of each national cinema’s approach to and representation of horror, within the subgenre of the ghost story, tracing convergences and divergences in the films’ narrative trajectories, aesthetic style, thematic focus and ideological content. In comparing contemporary Japanese horror films with their American adaptations, this book advances existing studies of both the Japanese and American cinematic traditions, by: illustrating the ways in which each tradition responds to developments in its social, cultural and ideological milieu; and, examining Japanese horror films and their American remakes through a lens that highlights cross-cultural exchange and bilateral influence. The book will be of interest to scholars of film, media, and cultural studies.

The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle

Alexandra West
The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle Book PDF

Author : Alexandra West
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476670645

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The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle by Alexandra West Pdf

Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras. No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD soundtrack covers. "Girl power" feminism and a growing distaste for consumerism defined an audience that both embraced and rejected the commercial appeal of these films. This in-depth study examines the youth subculture and politics of the era, focusing on such films as Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Idle Hands (1999) and Cherry Falls (2000).

Italian Horror Cinema

Stefano Baschiera
Italian Horror Cinema Book PDF

Author : Stefano Baschiera
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748693535

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Italian Horror Cinema by Stefano Baschiera Pdf

This collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the Italian horror cinema genre.

Digital Horror

Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake
Digital Horror Book PDF

Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857727763

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Digital Horror by Xavier Aldana Reyes,Linnie Blake Pdf

In recent years, the ways in which digital technologies have come to shape our experience of the world has been an immensely popular subject in the horror film genre. Contemporary horror cinema reflects and exploits the anxieties of our age in its increasing use of hand-held techniques and in its motifs of surveillance, found footage (fictional films that appear 'real': comprising discovered video recordings left behind by victims/protagonists) and 'digital haunting' (when ghosts inhabit digital technologies). This book offers an exploration of the digital horror film phenomenon, across different national cultures and historic periods, examining the sub-genres of CCTV horror, technological haunting, snuff films, found footage and torture porn. Digital horror, it demonstrates, is a product of the post 9/11 neo-liberal world view - characterised by security paranoia, constant surveillance and social alienation. Digital horror screens its subjects via the transnational technologies of our age, such as the camcorder and CCTV, and records them in secret footage that may, one day, be found.