Lowenstein Horror Film and Otherness

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55615-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the category of the other is not fixed. Instead, the genre captures ongoing metamorphoses across “normal” self and “monstrous” other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowenstein, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Situating Horror and Otherness: Tree of Life, Night of the Living Dead, Pittsburgh
Part I: Transforming Horror and Otherness
1. A Reintroduction to the American Horror Film: Revisiting Robin Wood and 1970s Horror
2. The Surrealism of Horror’s Otherness: Listening to The Shout
Part II: Transforming the Masters of Horror
3. Nightmare Zone: Aging as Otherness in the Cinema of Tobe Hooper
4. The Trauma of Economic Otherness: Horror in George A. Romero’s Martin
5. Therapeutic Disintegration: Jewish Otherness in the Cinema of David Cronenberg
Part III: Transforming Horror’s Other Voices
6. Gendered Otherness: Feminine Horror and Surrealism in Marina de Van, Stephanie Rothman, and Jennifer Kent
7. Racial Otherness: Horror’s Black/Jewish Minority Vocabulary, from Jordan Peele to Ira Levin and Curt Siodmak
Afterword. Horror and Otherness in Anguished Times
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Lowenstein is a professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema, and the Modern Horror Film (2005) and Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media (2015), both published by Columbia University Press. Lowenstein serves on the board of directors for the George A. Romero Foundation.