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Title: Dark Forces at Work
Condition: New
Subtitle: Essays on Social Dynamics and Cinematic Horrors
ISBN-10: 1498588573
EAN: 9781498588577
ISBN: 9781498588577
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 05/15/2023
Description:

Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue between fantasy and lived reality, as well.



While several of the essays focus on “name” horror films such as IT, Get Out, Hellraiser, and Don’t Breathe, the collection also features essays focused on horror films produced in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and on American classic thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Key social issues addressed include the war on terror, poverty, the housing crisis, and the Time’s Up movement. The volume grounds its analysis in the films, rather than theory, in order to explore the ways in which institutions, identities, and ideologies work within the horror genre.


Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 231mm
Item Length: 160mm
Contributor: Jacqueline Morrill (Contributions by), Katherine Lizza (Contributions by), Russell Meeuf (Contributions by), Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Contributions by), Benjamin James (Contributions by), Emiliano Aguilar (Contributions by), Juan Juvé (Contributions by), Allyson Marino (Contributions by), Alissa Burger (Contributions by), Cynthia J. Miller (Edited by), Thomas Prasch (Contributions by), Rea Amit (Contributions by), James J. Ward (Contributions by), A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Edited by), Michael C. Reiff (Contributions by), Lindsey Michael Banco (Contributions by), Cynthia J. Miller (Contributions by), Brandon Niezgoda (Contributions by), Erika Tiburcio Moreno (Contributions by), Maria Gil Poisa (Contributions by), A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Contributions by), Kevin Thomas McKenna (Contributions by), Michael Fuchs (Contributions by), Luisa Hyojin Koo (Contributions by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: Lexington Books Horror Studies
Item Width: 21mm
Item Weight: 549g
Topic: Films & TV
Author: Katherine Lizza
Release Year: 2023

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