Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Why Horror? -- 1. Black Screens, Lost Bodies: The Cinematic Apparatus of 9/11 Horror -- 2. Let's Roll: Hollywood Takes on 9/11 -- 3. Transforming Horror: David Cronenberg's Cinematic Gestures after 9/11 -- Part Two. Horror Looks at Itself -- 4. Caught on Tape? The Politics of Video in the New Torture Film -- 5. Cutting into Concepts of "Reflectionist" Cinema?The Saw Franchise and Puzzles of Post-9/11 Horror -- 6. The Host versus Cloverfield -- 7. "Shop 'Til You Drop!": Consumerism and Horror -- Part Three. Horror in Action -- 8. Historicizing the Bush Years: Politics, Horror Film, and Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend -- 9. "I Am the Devil and I'm Heret o Do the Devil's Work": Rob Zombie, George W. Bush, and the Limits of American Freedom -- 10. "Forever Family" Values: Twilight and the Modern Mormon Vampire -- 11. Assimilation and the Queer Monster -- Selected Bibliography -- Selected Filmography -- Contributors -- Index.