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Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue between fantasy and lived reality, as well. While several of the essays focus on “name” horror films such as IT, Get Out, Hellraiser, and Don’t Breathe, the collection also features essays focused on horror films produced in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and on American classic thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Key social issues addressed include the war on terror, poverty, the housing crisis, and the Time’s Up movement. The volume grounds its analysis in the films, rather than theory, in order to explore the ways in which institutions, identities, and ideologies work within the horror genre.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Part I. National Identity: Haunting the Homeland Chapter One: Ringing Home, Missed Calls, and Unbroken Land-lines: Domestication of, and Miscommunication in, K- and J- Horror Rea Amit Chapter Two: Redefining the Heimat: Austrian Horror Cinema and the “Home” in a Global Age Michael Fuchs Chapter Three: Korean National Trauma and the Myth of Hypermasculinity in The Wailing (2016) Luisa Koo Chapter Four: The Witch, the Wolf, and the Monster: Monstrous Bodies and Empire in Penny Dreadful Allyson Marino Part II. Market Forces and Their Monsters Chapter Five: Recession Horror: The Haunted Housing Crisis in Contemporary Fiction Lindsey Michael Banco Chapter Six: Classism and Horror in the Seventies: The Rural Dweller as a Monster Erika Tiburcio Moreno Chapter Seven: All Against All: Dystopia, Dark Forces, and Hobbesian Anarchy in the Purge Films A. Bowdoin Van Riper Chapter Eight: Motor City Gothic: White Youth and Economic Anxiety in It Follows and Don’t Breathe Russell Meeuf and Benjamin James Part III. Ideology: You Just Have to Believe Chapter Nine: Gothic Neoliberalism in 1980s British Horror Cinema Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Juan Juvé, and Emiliano Aguilar Chapter Ten: Infringing on Cycles of Oppression: Artisanal Bricolage and Synthesis in Mumblegore Brandon Niezgoda Chapter Eleven: Faith as Confinement: Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others (2004) Maria Gil Poisa Part IV. History Never Dies Chapter Twelve: The Pursuit of Certainty: Legends and Local Knowledge in Candyman Cynthia J. Miller Chapter Thirteen: “Nothing Is What It Seems”: Montage and Misread Histories in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973) Thomas Prasch Chapter Fourteen: “Tens of Thousands of Men Died Here”: Desire, Revenge, and Memories of War in Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat James J. Ward Chapter Fifteen: Peril, Imprisonment, and the Power of Place in Jordan Peele’s Get Out Michael C. Reiff Part V. The Horrors of Place Chapter Sixteen: The Hovel Condemned: The Environmental Psychology of Place in Horror Jacqueline Morrill Chapter Seventeen: Coming Home to Horror: Stephen King’s Derry and Castle Rock Alissa Burger Chapter Eighteen: It Follows and the Uncertainties of the Middle Class Katherine Lizza Chapter Nineteen: “We’re all in our private traps”: Reconfiguring Suburbia’s Protective Borders in Psycho (1960) Kevin Thomas McKenna


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781498588577
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1498588573
  • Publisher Date: 15 May 2023
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 348
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 549 gr


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