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Horror film and otherness

Title
Horror film and otherness / Adam Lowenstein
Author
Lowenstein, Adam
Publication
  • New York : Columbia University Press, 2022
  • ©2022

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Description
xiii, 224 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Series Statement
Film and culture
Subject
  • Horror films > History and criticism
  • Other (Philosophy) in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-213) and index
Contents
Introduction. Situating horror and otherness : tree of life, Night of the living dead, Pittsburgh -- A reintroduction to the American horror film : revisiting Robin Wood and 1970s horror -- The surrealism of horror's otherness : listening to The shout -- Nightmare zone : aging as otherness in the cinema of Tobe Hooper -- The trauma of economic otherness : horror in George A. Romero's Martin -- Therapeutic disintegration : Jewish otherness in the cinema of David Cronenberg -- Gendered otherness : feminine horror and surrealism in Marina de Van, Stephanie Rothman, and Jennifer Kent -- Racial otherness : horror's Black/Jewish minority vocabulary, from Jordan Peele to Ira Levin and Curt Siodmak -- Afterword. Horror and otherness in anguished times.
ISBN
9780231205764
OCLC
  • 1309307017
  • on1309307017
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries