The horror reader

The horror reader edited by Ken Gelder.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gelder, Ken, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edition:Taylor & Francis e-Library ed.
Series:Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:
Horror tales > History and criticism.
Horror films > History and criticism.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
This was purchased from Ebsco with a single user license.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the field of horror / Ken Gelder
  • Definition of the fantastic / Tzvetan Todorov
  • 1848: the assault on reason (extract) / Jose B. Monleon
  • Phantasmagoria and the metaphorics of modern reverie (extract) / Terry Castle
  • Vampires, breast-feeding, and anxiety (extract) / Joan Copjec
  • Kristeva, femininity, abjection / Barbara Creed
  • 'In his bold gaze my ruin is writ large' (extract) / Slavoj Zizek
  • Introduction to monstrous imagination / Marie-Helene Huet
  • Freaks / Mary Russo
  • The serial killer as a type of person (extract) / Mark Seltzer
  • Production and reproduction : the case of Frankenstein (extract) / Paul O'Flynn
  • Here comes the bride : wedding gender and race in Bride of Frankenstein (extract) / Elizabeth Young
  • Dialectic of fear (extract) / Franco Moretti
  • The occidental tourist : Dracula and the anxiety of reverse colonization (extract) / Stephen D. Arata
  • Vampiric typewriting : Dracula and its media (extract) / Jennifer Wicke
  • Dr Jekyll's closet (extract) / Elaine Showalter
  • Tracking the vampire (extract) / Sue-Ellen Case
  • Female spectator, lesbian specter : The Haunting (extract) / Patricia White
  • Vampires in Greece (extract) / Ken Gelder
  • King Kong and the monster in ethnographic cinema (extract) / Fatimah Tobing Rony
  • Introduction to American horrors (extract) / Gregory A. Waller
  • Introduction to American gothic (extract) / Teresa A. Goddu
  • Horrality-the textuality of contemporary horror films / Philip Brophy
  • The terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski
  • Her body, herself (extract) / Carol J. Clover
  • Fans' notes : the horror film fanzine / David Sanjek
  • A (sadistic) night at the Opera : notes on the Italian horror film / Leon Hunt
  • Revenge of the Leech woman : on the dread of aging in a low-budget horror film / Vivian Sobchack
  • Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory / Graham Huggan
  • Preposterous Hong Kong horror : Rouge's (be)hindsight and a (sodomitical) Chinese ghost story / Andre Yue.

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