European Nightmares - Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-16206-7
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

This volume is the first edited collection of essays focusing on European horror cinema from 1945 to the present. It features new contributions by distinguished international scholars exploring British, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Northern European and Eastern European horror cinema. The essays employ a variety of current critical methods of analysis, ranging from psychoanalysis and Deleuzean film theory to reception theory and historical analysis. The complete volume offers a major resource on post-war European horror cinema, with in-depth studies of such classic films as Seytan (Turkey, 1974), Suspiria (Italy, 1977), Switchblade Romance (France, 2003), and Taxidermia (Hungary 2006).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allmer, Patricia

Huxley, David

Brick, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContributorsIntroduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David HuxleyReception and Perception of European Horror CinemasSection Introduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David HuxleyResident Evil? The Limits of European Horror: Resident Evil Versus Suspiria, by Peter HutchingsBeyond Suspiria: The Place of European Horror Cinema in the Fan Canon, by Brigid CherryRefusing to Look at Rape: The Reception of Belgian Horror Cinema, by Ernest Mathijs and Russ HunterDepressing, Degrading! The Reception of the European Horror Film in Britain, 1957;68, by David HuxleyBritish Horror CinemaSection Introduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David HuxleyThe Boundaries of Horror in Wolf Rilla's Village of the Damned, by John SearsNew Labour, New Horrors: Genetic Mutation, Generic Hybridity and Gender Crisis in British Horror of the New Millennium, by Linnie BlakeFrench Horror CinemaSection Introduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David HuxleyBaise-moi and the French Rape-Revenge Film, by Emily BrickSubjectivity Unleashed: Haute Tension, by Matthias HurstSpanish Horror CinemaSection Introduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David HuxleyPaul Naschy, Exorcismo and the Reactionary Horrors of Spanish Popular Cinema in the Early 1970s, by Andy WillisHistory, Terrain and Tread: The Walk of Demons, Zombie Flesh Eaters and the Blind Dead, by Phil SmithAlejandro Amenábar and Contemporary Spanish Horror, by Barry JordanItalian Horror CinemaSection Introduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David HuxleyLive Ate: Global Catastrophe and the Politics and Poetics of the Italian Zombie Film, by Mark GoodallA Touch of Terror: Dario Argento and Deleuze's Cinematic Sensorium, by Anna PowellGerman and Northern European Horror CinemaSection Introduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David Huxley'A Former Director of German Horror Films': Horror, European Cinema and the Critical Reception of Robert Siodmak's Hollywood Career, by Mark JancovichWorld of Blood and Fire: Lang, Mabuse, and Bergman's The Serpent's Egg, by Samuel J. Umland'Le Cineaste d'Horreur Ordinaire': Michael Haneke and the Horrors of Everyday Existence, by Catherine WheatleyEastern European Horror CinemaSection Introduction, by Patricia Allmer, Emily Brick, and David HuxleyA Gaze from Hell: Eastern European Horror Cinema Revisited, by Christina StojanovaTaxidermia a Hungarian Taste for Horror, by Patricia AllmerHorror Films in Turkish Cinema: To Use or Not to Use Local Cultural Motifs, That is Not the Question, by Kaya ÖzkaracalarFilmographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Allmer, Patricia
Patricia Allmer is Senior Research Fellow in Art History and Theory at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is that author of René Magritte: Beyond Painting (2009).

Huxley, David
David Huxley is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; he is the author of Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs and Rock n' Roll in the British Underground (2001). Emily Brick is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK; she is a contributor to Sex and Television (2012).