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The philosophy of horror /

The philosophy of horror / edited by Thomas Fahy. - Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2010. - vi, 259 p. ill. ; 24 cm. - The philosophy of popular culture .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Horror and the Idea of Everyday Life: On Skeptical Threats in Psycho and The Birds / Philip J. Nickel -- Through a Mirror, Darkly: Art-Horror as a Medium for Moral Reflection / Philip Tallon -- The Justification of Torture-Horror: Retribution and Sadism in Saw, Hostel, and The Devil's Rejects / Jeremy Morris -- Hobbes, Human Nature, and the Culture of American Violence in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood / Thomas Fahy -- Making Their Presence Known: TV's Ghost-Hunter Phenomenon in a "Post-" World / Jessica O'Hara -- The Vampire with a Soul: Angel and the Quest for Identity / Amy Kind -- Ideological Formations of the Nuclear Family in The Hills Have Eyes / Lorena Russell -- Zombies of the World, Unite: Class Struggle and Alienation in Land of the Dead / John Lutz -- The Fall of the House of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the Gothic Vision of The Black Cat / Paul A. Cantor -- From Domestic Nightmares to the Nightmare of History: Uncanny Eruptions of Violence in King's and Kubrick's Versions of The Shining / John Lutz -- "Hot with Rapture and Cold with Fear": Grotesque, Sublime, and Postmodern Transformations in Patrick SuÌskind's Perfume / Susann Cokal -- Shock Value: A Deleuzean Encounter with James Purdy's Narrow rooms / Robert F. Gross -- Making Monsters: The Philosophy of Reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universal Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein / Ann C. Hall -- Kitsch and Camp and Things That Go Bump in the Night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (Horror) Movies / David MacGregor Johnston.

9780813125732 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2009053152


Horror films--History and criticism.
Horror television programs--History and criticism.
Horror in literature.
Horror tales, American--History and criticism.
Popular culture.

PN1995.9.H6 / P45 2010

791.43/6164

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