Horror after 9/11

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Edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller

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The first major exploration of the horror film genre through the lens of 9/11 and the subsequent transformation of American and global society.

Inhalt

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction (Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller)
• Part One. Why Horror?
• Chapter 1. Black Screens, Lost Bodies: The Cinematic Apparatus of 9/11 Horror (Laura Frost)
• Chapter 2. Let's Roll: Hollywood Takes on 9/11 (Elisabeth Ford)
• Chapter 3. Transforming Horror: David Cronenberg's Cinematic Gestures after 9/11 (Adam Lowenstein)
• Part Two. Horror Looks at Itself
• Chapter 4. Caught on Tape? The Politics of Video in the New Torture Film (Catherine Zimmer)
• Chapter 5. Cutting into Concepts of "Reflectionist" Cinema? The Saw Franchise and Puzzles of Post-9/11 Horror (Matt Hills)
• Chapter 6. The Host versus Cloverfield (Homay King)
• Chapter 7. "Shop 'Til You Drop!": Consumerism and Horror (Aviva Briefel)
• Part Three. Horror in Action
• Chapter 8. Historicizing the Bush Years: Politics, Horror Film, and Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend (Steffen Hantke)
• Chapter 9. "I Am the Devil and I'm Here to Do the Devil's Work": Rob Zombie, George W. Bush, and the Limits of American Freedom (Linnie Blake)
• Chapter 10. "Forever Family" Values: Twilight and the Modern Mormon Vampire (Travis Sutton and Harry M. Benshoff)
• Chapter 11. Assimilation and the Queer Monster (Sam J. Miller)
• Selected Bibliography
• Selected Filmography
• Contributors
• Index