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The philosophy of horror / edited by Thomas Fahy.

Contributor(s): Series: The philosophy of popular culturePublication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2010.Description: vi, 259 p. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813125732 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/6164 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H6 P45 2010
Contents:
Horror and the Idea of Everyday Life: On Skeptical Threats in Psycho and The Birds / Philip J. Nickel -- 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 Domestic Nightmares 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 SuÌskind'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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1995.9 .H6 P45 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001484772

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Horror and the Idea of Everyday Life: On Skeptical Threats in Psycho and The Birds / Philip J. Nickel -- 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 Domestic Nightmares 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 SuÌskind'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.

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