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Description'Gelder is to be congratulated on this selection. If you teach horror then I recommend this, the academic weight here, carefully used, could help students see beyond the gore.' - In The Picture List of illustrations x Acknowledgements xi Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION: THE FIELD OF HORROR 1 PART ONE THE FANTASTIC Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE 11 1 Tzvetan Todorov DEFINITION OF THE FANTASTIC 14 2 José B. Monleon 1848: THE ASSAULT ON REASON (EXTRACT) 20 3 Terry Castle PHANTASMAGORIAAND THE METAPHORICS OF MODERN REVERIE (EXTRACT) 29vi CONTENTS PART TWO HORROR AND PSYCHOANALYSIS Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO 49 4 Joan Copjec VAMPIRES, BREAST-FEEDING, AND ANXIETY (EXTRACT) 52 5 Barbara Creed KRISTEVA, FEMININITY, ABJECTION 64 6 Slavoj Žižek ‘IN HIS BOLD GAZE MY RUIN IS WRIT LARGE’ (EXTRACT) 71 PART THREE MONSTROSITIES Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE 81 7 Marie-Hélene Huet INTRODUCTION TO MONSTROUS IMAGINATION 84 8 Mary Russo FREAKS 90 9 Mark Seltzer THE SERIAL KILLER AS A TYPE OF PERSON (EXTRACT) 97 PART FOUR MANY FRANKENSTEINS Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR 111 10 Paul O’Flinn PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION: THE CASE OF FRANKENSTEIN (EXTRACT) 114 11 Elizabeth Young HERE COMES THE BRIDE: WEDDING GENDER AND RACE IN BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (EXTRACT) 128 PART FIVE READING THE KING VAMPIRE Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE 145 12 Franco Moretti DIALECTIC OF FEAR (EXTRACT) 148 13 Stephen D. Arata THE OCCIDENTAL TOURIST: DRACULA AND THE ANXIETY OF REVERSE COLONIZATION (EXTRACT) 161 14 Jennifer Wicke VAMPIRIC TYPEWRITING: DRACULA AND ITS MEDIA (EXTRACT) 172 PART SIX QUEER HORROR Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART SIX 187 15 Elaine Showalter DR JEKYLL’S CLOSET (EXTRACT) 190 16 Sue-Ellen Case TRACKING THE VAMPIRE (EXTRACT) 198 17 Patricia White FEMALE SPECTATOR, LESBIAN SPECTER: THE HAUNTING (EXTRACT) 210 CONTENTS vii viii CONTENTS PART SEVEN ETHNIC MONSTERS Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART SEVEN 225 18 Ken Gelder VAMPIRES IN GREECE (EXTRACT) 228 19 Fatimah Tobing Rony KING KONG AND THE MONSTER IN ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA (EXTRACT) 242 PART EIGHT AMERICAN GOTHIC Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART EIGHT 253 20 Gregory A. Waller INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HORRORS (EXTRACT) 256 21 Teresa A. Goddu INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN GOTHIC (EXTRACT) 265 PART NINE READING SPLATTER/SLASHER CINEMA Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART NINE 273 22 Philip Brophy HORRALITY – THE TEXTUALITY OF CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILMS 276 23 Tania Modleski THE TERROR OF PLEASURE: THE CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILM AND POSTMODERN THEORY 285 24 Carol J. Clover HER BODY, HIMSELF (EXTRACT) 294 PART TEN LOWBROW/LOW-BUDGET HORROR Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART TEN 311 25 David Sanjek FANS’ NOTES: THE HORROR FILM FANZINE 314 26 Leon Hunt A (SADISTIC) NIGHT AT THE OPERA: NOTES ON THE ITALIAN HORROR FILM 324 27 Vivian Sobchack REVENGE OF THE LEECH WOMAN: ON THE DREAD OF AGING IN A LOW-BUDGET HORROR FILM 336 PART ELEVEN NEW REGIONAL HORROR Ken Gelder INTRODUCTION TO PART ELEVEN 349 28 Graham Huggan GHOST STORIES, BONE FLUTES, CANNIBAL COUNTERMEMORY 352 29 Audrey Yue PREPOSTEROUS HONG KONG HORROR: ROUGE’S (BE)HINDSIGHT AND A (SODOMITICAL) CHINESE GHOST STORY 364 Notes on contributors 374 Bibliography 379 Index 401 CONTENTS ix Illustrations 3.1 Frontispiece from Phantasmagoria: or, The Development of Magical Deception (1803) 31 7.1 The Ravenna monster, after Boaistuau, from Ambroise Paré, Des monstres et prodiges (1573) 85 11.1 Still from Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 129 17.1 Still from The Haunting (1963) 216 24.1 Still from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 296 29.1 Stills from A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) 372 Sharing Widget |
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