Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books (eBook, PDF)

Red Ink in the Gutter
Redaktion: Darowski, John; Pagnoni Berns, Fernando Gabriel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000628890
• Artikelnr.: 64244373

Autorenporträt

John Darowski is a PhD candidate in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville, USA. He has edited an essay collection on Superman adaptations (2021) and has published several essays on the history of superheroes. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (PhD) works at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He teaches courses on international horror films and has authored a book about Spanish horror TV series Historias para no Dormir (2019) and has edited a book on James Wan's films.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I: Horror Comic Books in a Socio-Historical Context
2. From Caligari to Wertham: When EC's Horror Comics Feared for Their Own Survival
3. "Men have Sentenced This Fen to Death": Marvel's Man-Thing and the Liberation Politics of the 1970s
4. The Horrors Haunting the City of Joy: Analyzing the Traumas of the Counterinsurgency in City of Sorrows
5. Spanish Creepy: Historical Amnesia in "Las mil caras de Jack el destripador"
Part II: Race and Gender in Horror Comic Books
6. "A Sight to Dream of
Not to Tell!": Orality and Power in Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina's InSEXts
7. Gendered Violence and the Abject Body in Junji It¿'s Tomie
8. Lily Renée's The Werewolf Hunter and the Secret Origin of Horror Comics
9. The Wolf Only Needs to Find You Once: Food
Feeding
and Fear in the Dark Fairy Tales of Emily Carroll
10. Borderland Werewolves: The Horrific Representation of the U.S.-Mexico Border in Feeding Ground
Part III: Adaptation in Horror Comic Books
11. Flesh and Blood: Zombies
Vampires
and George A. Romero's Transmedia Expansion of the Dead
12. An Alien World: A Comic Book Adaptation of The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
13. Horror Transformed: Tanabe Gou's Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft
14. Mutant Gothic: Marvel's Mainstreaming of Horror in Uncanny X-Men
15. Franken-Castle: Monster Hunters
Monstrous Masculinities
and the Punisher
Part IV: Horror Comic Books and Philosophy
16. Dylan Dog's Nightmares: The Unheimlich Experience of the Doppelgänger in Dylan Dog's World
17. Messages of Death: Haunted Media in "Kaine: Endorphins - Between Life and Death"
18. Heterotopia and Horror at Show's End
19. The Hell Economics of Zombillénium
Index