| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
FahyThomas Richard, |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Lexington, Ky. |
| Published: |
University Press of Kentucky; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (vi, 259 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
The philosophy of popular culture |
| Subject: |
Popular culture - |
| Subject: |
Horror tales, American - History and criticism - |
| Subject: |
Horror in literature - |
| Subject: |
Horror television programs - History and criticism - |
| Subject: |
Horror films - History and criticism - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813173702/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: |
9780813173702electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780813125732hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Horror and the Idea of Everyday Life: On Skeptical Threats in Psychoand The Birds / Philip JNickel -- 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 DomesticNightmares 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 Suskind'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 |