Twenty First Century Horror Films - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twenty First Century Horror Films write by Douglas Keesey. This book was released on 2017-03-23. Twenty First Century Horror Films available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This lively and illuminating book explores over 100 contemporary horror films, providing insightful and provocative readings of what they mean while including numerous quotes from their creators. Some of these films, including The Babadook, The Green Inferno, It Follows, The Neon Demon, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and The Witch, are so recent that this will be one of the first times they are discussed in book form. The book is divided into three main sections: "nightmares," "nations," and "innovations." "Nightmares" looks at new manifestations of traditional fears, including creepy dolls, haunted houses and demonic possession as well as vampires, werewolves, witches and zombies; and also considers more contemporary anxieties such as dread of home invasion and homophobia. "Nations" explores fright films from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Sweden as well as the UK and the U.S. "Innovations" focuses on the latest trends in terror from 3D to found-footage films, from Twilight teen romance to torture porn, and from body horror and eco-horror to techno-horror. Parodies, remakes and American adaptations of Asian horror are also discussed.
Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror
Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror write by Kimberly Jackson. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender and the Nuclear Family in Twenty-First-Century Horror is the first book-length project to focus specifically on the ways that patriarchal decline and post-feminist ideology are portrayed in popular American horror films of the twenty-first century. Through analyses of such films as Orphan, Insidious, and Carrie, Kimberly Jackson reveals how the destruction of male figures and depictions of female monstrosity in twenty-first-century horror cinema suggest that contemporary American culture finds itself at a cultural standstill between a post-patriarchal society and post-feminist ideology.
Hardcore Horror Cinema in the 21st Century
Hardcore Horror Cinema in the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hardcore Horror Cinema in the 21st Century write by James Aston. This book was released on 2018-09-04. Hardcore Horror Cinema in the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first of its kind, this study examines the exemplars of hardcore horror--Fred Vogel's August Underground trilogy, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer series and Lucifer Valentine's "vomit gore" films. The author begins with a definition and critical overview of this marginalized subgenre before exploring its key aesthetic convention, the pursuit of realist horror. Production practices, exhibition and marketing strategies are discussed in an in-depth interview with filmmaker Shane Ryan. Audience reception is covered with a focus on fan interaction via the Internet.
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema write by Jessica Balanzategui. This book was released on 2018-12-11. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book illustrates how global horror film images of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films-largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America-the child resists embodying growth and futurity, concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.
The New Flesh
The New Flesh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Flesh write by Stuart Willis. This book was released on 2015-03-27. The New Flesh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Examines the many trends and sub-genres that have contributed to horror cinema over the last fifteen years. 'The New Flesh'--over the course of an ongoing series of tomes, collectively and over time--is designed to provide a definitive reference guide to the seemingly bottomless pit of movies striving to keep the flames burning in recent times. . .'The New Flesh' embraces a selection of sub-genres, as well as covering a small number of those non-horror features that fans owe it to themselves to check out."--Back cover
