Research Catalog

Title

Horror international / edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-
• Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11-

Description

xi, 384 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Subject

Horror films > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. THE DYNAMICS OF CROSS-CULTURAL HORROR EXCHANGE -- Blood and black gloves on shiny discs: new media, old tastes, and the remediation of Italian horror films in the United States / Raiford Guins -- Importation/mexploitation, or, How a crime-fighting, vampire-slaying Mexican wrestler almost found himself in an Italian sword-and-sandals epic / Andrew Syder, Dolores Tierney -- The dialogue with American popular culture in two German films about the serial killer / Steffen Hantke -- II. HAUNTING HISTORIES AND REGIONAL GOTHICS -- The return of history as horror: Qnibaba and the atomic bomb / Jyotsna Kapur -- "Terror Australis": areas of horror in the Australian cinema / Jonathan Rayner -- Kiwi gothic: New Zealand's cinema of a perilous paradise / Ian Conrich -- Irish horror: Neil Jordan and the Anglo-Irish gothic / Brian McIlroy -- Thailand haunted: the power of the past in the contemporary Thai horror film / Adam Knee -- III. HORROR IN THE SOCIAL REALM -- The Spanish horror film as subversive text: Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino / Andrew Willis -- Genre bending and gender bonding: masculinity and repression in Dutch "thriller" cinema / Steven Jay Schneider, Kevin W. Sweeney -- Hong Kong social horror: tragedy and farce in Category 3 / Tony Williams -- Beyond Dracula and Ceausescu: phenomenology of horror in Romanian cinema / Christina Stojanova -- Snapping up schoolgirls: legitimation crisis in recent Canadian horror / Suzie Young -- IV. CONTESTED HORROR TRADITIONS -- Beyond the genre formula: implicit horror in the films of Jan Švankmajer / Jan Uhde -- Egypt: a cinema without horror? / Viola Shafik -- Burn, witch, burn: a first look at the Scandinavian horror film / Rebecca A. Umland, Samuel J. Umland -- Man bites dog and the critical reception of Belgian horror (in) cinema / Ernest Mathijs -- Exorcising the devil: Russian cinema and horror / Josephine Woll.

Call Number

MFL 05-6637

ISBN

• 0814331009 (alk. paper)
• 0814331017 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004017352

OCLC

56058097

Title

Horror international / edited by Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams.

Imprint

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005.

Series

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Schneider, Steven Jay, 1974-

Williams, Tony, 1946 January 11-

Research Call Number

MFL 05-6637