Linnie Blake

The Wounds of Nations

Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

The wounds of nations explores the ways in which horror films allows international audiences to deal with the horrors of recent history - from genocide to terrorist outrage, nuclear war to radical political change. Far from being mere escapism or titillation, it shows how horror (whether it be from 1970s America, 1980s Germany, post-Thatcherite Britain or post-9/11 America) is in fact a highly political and potentially therapeutic film genre that enables us to explore, and potentially recover from, the terrors of life in the real world. Exploring a wide range of stylistically distinctive and generically diverse film texts, Blake proffers a radical critique of the nation-state and the ideologies of identity it promulgates, showing that horror cinema can offer us a disturbing, yet perversely life affirming, means of working through the traumatic legacy of recent times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780719075933
• ISBN-10: 0719075939
• Artikelnr.: 23607413

Autorenporträt

Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film in Manchester Metropolitan University's Department of English

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinema I German and
Japanese horror - the traumatic legacy of world war two II The traumatised
1970s and the threat of apocalypse now III: From Vietnam to 9/11: the
Orientalist other and the American poor white IV: New Labour new horrors -
the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity Conclusions Bibliography
Filmography Index