The wounds of nations horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity /

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Main Author: Blake, Linnie
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring
  • The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. 'Consumed out of the good land' : George A. Romero's horror of the 1970s ; All hail to the serial killer : America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond
  • From Vietnam to 9/11 : the orientalist other and the American poor white. 'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11
  • New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. Zombies, dog men and dragon : generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium.