Twenty First Century Horror Films

Author : Douglas Keesey
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781843449065

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Twenty First Century Horror Films by Douglas Keesey Pdf

From the vengeful ghosts of J-horror to the walking dead in 28 Days and World War Z, from the creepiness of Spain's haunted houses to the graphic gore of the New French Extremism, horror is everywhere in the twenty-first century. This lively and illuminating book explores over 100 contemporary horror films, providing insightful and provocative readings of what they mean while including numerous quotes from their creators. Some of these films, including The Babadook, The Green Inferno, It Follows, The Neon Demon, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Witch, are so recent that this will be one of the first times they are discussed in book form. The book is divided into three main sections: 'nightmares', 'nations' and 'innovations'. 'Nightmares' looks at new manifestations of traditional fears, including creepy dolls, haunted houses and demonic possession as well as vampires, werewolves, witches and zombies; and also considers more contemporary anxieties such as dread of home invasion and homophobia. 'Nations' explores fright films from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Sweden as well as the UK and the US. 'Innovations' focuses on the latest trends in terror from 3D to found-footage films, from Twilight teen romance to torture porn, and from body horror and eco-horror to techno-horror. Parodies, remakes and American adaptations of Asian horror are also discussed.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793643407

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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Bacon Pdf

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre- women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being seen and finding space to speak.

Author : Kimberly Jackson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137532756

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Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror by Kimberly Jackson Pdf

Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.

Author : K. Jackson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137360267

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Technology, Monstrosity, and Reproduction in Twenty-first Century Horror by K. Jackson Pdf

Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves.

Author : Ingrid Lewis,Laura Canning
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030334369

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European Cinema in the Twenty-First Century by Ingrid Lewis,Laura Canning Pdf

This book rethinks the study of European Cinema in a way that centres on students and their needs, in a comprehensive volume introducing undergraduates to the main discourses, directions and genres of twenty-first-century European film. Importantly, this collection is the first of its kind to apply a transversal approach to European Cinema, bringing together the East and the West, while providing a broad picture of key trends, aesthetics, genres, national identities, and transnational concerns. Lewis and Canning’s collection effectively addresses some of the most pressing questions in contemporary European film, such as ecology, migration, industry, identity, disability, memory, auteurship, genre, small cinemas, and the national and international frameworks which underpin them. Combining accessible original research with a thorough grounding in recent histories and contexts, each chapter includes key definitions, reflective group questions, and a summative case study. Overall, this book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of recent European Cinema, making it an invaluable resource for lecturers and students across a variety of film-centred modules.

Author : James Aston
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668888

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Hardcore Horror Cinema in the 21st Century by James Aston Pdf

The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Valentine's "vomit gore" films. The author begins with a definition and critical overview of this marginalized subgenre before exploring its key aesthetic convention, the pursuit of realist horror. Production practices, exhibition and marketing strategies are discussed in an in-depth interview with filmmaker Shane Ryan. Audience reception is covered with a focus on fan interaction via the Internet.

Author : Nicole Beth Wallenbrock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474262811

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The Franco-Algerian War through a Twenty-First Century Lens by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock Pdf

The Franco-Algerian War (1954–62) remains a powerful international symbol of Third Worldism and the finality of Empire. Through its nuanced analysis of the war's depiction in film, The Franco-Algerian War through a Twenty-First Century Lens locates an international reckoning with history that both condemns and exonerates past generations. Algerian and French production partnerships-such as Hors-la-loi, (Outside the Law, Rachid Bouchareb, 2010) and Loubia Hamra (Bloody Beans, Narimane Mari, 2013)-are one of several ways citizens collaborate to unearth a shared history and its legacy. Nicole Beth Wallenbrock probes cinematic discourse to shed new light on topics including: the media revelation of torture and atomic bomb tests; immigration's role in the evolution of the war's meaning; and the complex relationship of the intertwined film cultures. The first chapter summarizes the Franco-Algerian War in 20th-century film, thus grounding subsequent queries with Algeria's moudjahid or freedom-fighter films and the French new wave's perceived disinterest in the conflict. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars seeking to understand cinema's role in re-evaluating war and reconstructing international memory.

Author : Chloe Germaine Buckley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474430197

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Twenty-First-Century Children's Gothic by Chloe Germaine Buckley Pdf

Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema

Author : Noelia Gregorio-Fernández
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031538360

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Culture Wars and Horror Movies by Noelia Gregorio-Fernández Pdf

Author : Baschiera Stefano Baschiera
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474405812

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Italian Horror Cinema by Baschiera Stefano Baschiera Pdf

In its heyday from the late 1950s until the early 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore, violence and often incoherent plot-lines. Films about zombies, cannibals and psychopathic killers ensured there was no shortage of controversy, and the genre presents a seemingly unpromising nexus of films for sustained critical analysis. But Italian horror cinema with all its variations, subgenres and filoni remains one of the most recognisable and iconic genre productions in Europe, achieving cult status worldwide. One of the manifestations of a rich production landscape in Italian popular cinema after the Second World War, Italian horror was also characterised by its imitation of foreign models and the transnational dimension of its production agreements, as well as by its international locations and stars.This collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the genre, investigating the different phases in its history, the peculiarities of the production system, the work of its most representative directors (Mario Bava and Dario Argento) and the wider role it has played within popular culture.

Author : Jessica Balanzategui
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048537792

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The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema by Jessica Balanzategui Pdf

This book illustrates how global horror film images of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films-largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America-the child resists embodying growth and futurity, concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Author : Wester Maisha Wester
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474440950

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Twenty-First-Century Gothic by Wester Maisha Wester Pdf

A transnational and transmedia companion to the post-millennial GothicKey FeaturesCovers key areas and themes of the post-millennial Gothic as well as developments in the field and revisions of the Gothic traditionConsitutes the first thematic compendium to this area with a transmedia (literature, film and television) and transnational approachCovers a plurality of texts, from novels such as Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005), Helen Oyeyemi's White Is for Witching (2009), Justin Cronin's The Passage (2010) and M.R. Carey's The Girl with All the Gifts (2014), to films such as Kairo (2001), Juan of the Dead (2012) and The Darkside (2013), to series such as Dante's Cove (2005-7), Hemlock Grove (2013-15), Penny Dreadful (2014-16) Black Mirror (2011-) and even the Slenderman mythos.This resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century. The 20 newly commissioned chapters cover emerging and expanding research areas, such as digital technologies, queer identity, the New Weird and postfeminism. They also discuss contemporary Gothic monsters - including zombies, vampires and werewolves - and highlight Ethnogothic forms such as Asian and Black Diasporic Gothic.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Latinx Pop Culture
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816537907

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Latinx Ciné in the Twenty-First Century by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

"A collection of essays that focus on Latinx films in the twenty-first century. It looks at film over a wide variety of genres and their historical, political, and cultural contexts, and considers how production techniques depict the Latinx experience. And it discusses non-Latinx filmmakers who complicate and enrich our understanding of the Latinx experience"--

Author : Charles St-Georges
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498563369

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Haunted Families and Temporal Normativity in Hispanic Horror Films by Charles St-Georges Pdf

This book examines the interactions between ghosts and families in three recent horror films from the Spanish-speaking world. It explores the ways in which horror films can serve to reinscribe or subvert hegemonic epistemologies of race and sexuality by manipulating the temporal framework in which intersectional subjectivities are articulated.

Author : Keith McDonald,Wayne Johnson
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785277740

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Contemporary Gothic and Horror Film by Keith McDonald,Wayne Johnson Pdf

This book looks at contemporary Gothic cinema within a transnational approach. With a focus on the aesthetic and philosophical roots which lie at the heart of the Gothic, the study invokes its literary as well as filmic forebears, by exploring how these styles informed strands of the modern filmic Gothic: the ghost narrative, folk horror, the vampire movie, cosmic horror and finally, the zombie film. In recent years, the concept of transnationalism has ‘trans’-cended its original boundaries, perhaps excessively in the minds of some. Originally defined in the wake of the rise of globalisation in the 1990s, as a way to study cinema beyond national boundaries, where the look and the story of a film reflected the input of more than one nation, or region, or culture. It was considered too confining to study national cinemas in an age of internationalization, witnessing the fusions of cultures, and post-colonialism, exile and diasporas. The concept allows us to appreciate the broader range of forces from a wider international perspective while at the same time also engaging with concepts of nationalism, identity and an acknowledgement of cinema itself. It also facilitated studies to focus on notions of hybridity where terms were not fixed but were constantly shifting and mobile. The central idea of the book is that after horror/Gothic film was dragged into disrepute by the rise of torture porn and endless North American remakes, a set of international filmmakers are seeking to emphasize the aesthetic, artistic and philosophical potential of the Gothic. Such filmmakers include Guillermo del Toro (Crimson Peak), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night), Park Chan-wook (The Handmaiden, Stoker), Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), Wim Wenders (Only Lovers Left Alive), Ben Wheatley (A Field in England), Jane Campion (Top of the Lake), and Carol Morley (The Falling). Although written in an accessible manner, the book incorporates theory and engages extensively into research to tap into key developments in Gothic studies – transnationalism, fandom and genre fiction, and transmedia exchanges – bringing these together along with popular culture and associated phenomena.