Domination of Fear.
Title:
Domination of Fear.
Author:
Canini, Mikko.
ISBN:
9789042030855
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I Cultural Materialisation of Fear, Horror, Terror -- Carnographic Culture: America and the Rise of the Torture Porn Film -- We're All Dirty Harry Now: Violent Movies for Violent Times -- The Gothic Topography in Scandinavian Horror Fiction -- Getting Medieval: Bodies of Fear, Serial Killers and Se7en -- PART II Fear, Horror and Politics -- Clash of Nihilisms -- Long Term Terrorism in Turkey: The Government, Media and Public Opinion -- PART III Fear, Horror and Literature -- Into the Woods: Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf -- Solar Midnight: Traversing the Abject Borderline State in Rudyard Kipling's The City of Dreadful Night -- The Laughter of Horror: Judgement of the Righteous or Tool of the Devil? -- Trash Mob: Zombie Walks and the Positivity of Monsters in Western Popular Culture -- Horror and the Politics of Fear.
Abstract:
The tropes of fear, horror and terror have come to play a dominant role the analysis of contemporary social life. The predominance of fear, as the frame through which we narrativize experience, can be perceived readily echoing across various fields from t.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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