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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: K. JacksonEAN: 9781137361035COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3452 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-11-19CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of ReligionWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
Kimberly Jackson is Associate Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.
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.
Format: HardbackCONTRIBUTORS: K. JacksonEAN: 9781137361035COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 3452 gHEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: 2013-11-19CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of ReligionWIDTH: 140 cmSPINE:
