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The philosophy of horror
- Title
- The philosophy of horror / edited by Thomas Fahy.
- Publication
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Fahy, Thomas Richard.
- Description
- vi, 259 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- The philosophy of popular culture
- Uniform Title
- Philosophy of popular culture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Thomas Fahy -- 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 Süskind'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.
- Call Number
- MFL 10-5202
- ISBN
- 9780813125732 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813125731 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009053152
- OCLC
- YBP 2009053152
- Title
- The philosophy of horror / edited by Thomas Fahy.
- Imprint
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2010.
- Series
- The philosophy of popular culturePhilosophy of popular culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Fahy, Thomas Richard.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 10-5202