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Transnational Horror Across Visual Media

Fragmented Bodies

Edited by Dana Och, Kirsten Strayer

To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge – 256 pages

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

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Description

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.

Contents

Part 1: Historical Mediations 1. Horror and Counter History: Profundo Carmesi. Marcia Landy 2. Dark Monarchs: Gothic Landscapes in Contemporary British Culture Stella Hockenhull 3. Hollywood's Humanity and Ethics through the Lens of German Filmmakers in the 1930s Martina Witt-Jauch 4. Memory of WWII and Old Curses: Village of Eight Gravestones. Chiho Nakagawa Part 2: (Bad) Translations 5. Bad Attempts at Badness: New Russian Horror Films Greg Dolgopolov 6. Bombay Horror and the Ramsay Brothers Kartik Nair 7. "The Country Bleeds with a Laugh": Social Criticism Meets Horror Genre in José Mojica Marins's At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul. Diana Anselmo-Sequeira Part 3: Media Crossing/ Crossing Media 8. Telling Tales Between Film and Television: The Enforced Impression of Takashi Miike's Imprint. Darren Kerr 9. Beyond the Gothic: The Horror of Connectivity and the Transnational Flow of Fear Brenda S. Gardenour 10. Monstrous Amalgamation: Transnational Horror Video Games Kara Lynn Andersen Part 4: Biology, Bodies, and Borderlessness 11. Transvessel Blood Debt: Vampire and Capital Addi(c)tion Sheng Mei Ma 12. "The Sheep are Revolting": Becoming-Animal in the Post-Colonial Zombie Comedy Dana Och Part 5: Exile and Migration, Politics and Thought 13. Doctor de Sade: A Sadean Approach to Representations of Mad Science in Horror Cinema Lindsay Hallam 14. The Dread of the Secular: Theological Horror in Contemporary Cinema Richard Purcell 15. Experiment and Sensation: The Circulation of Art Cinema as Horror Texts Kirsten Strayer

Author Bio

Dana Ochis Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Kirsten Strayer is Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Name: Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Dana Och, Kirsten Strayer. 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,...
Categories: Horror, International Media, World Cinema, Film Genre, New Media, Video Games, Television Studies, Popular Culture, Visual Culture