The horror reader / edited by Ken Gelder.

This study brings together writings on this controversial genre, spanning the history of horror in literature and film. It discusses texts from the United States, Europe, the Caribbean and Hong Kong.

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Other Authors: Gelder, Ken, 1955-
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Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-399) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : the field of horror / Ken Gelder -- Part 1: The fantastic. Definition of the fantastic / Tzvetan Todorov -- 1848: the assault on reason (extract) / José B. Monleon -- Phantasmagoria and the metaphorics of modern reverie (extract) / Terry Castle -- Part 2: Horror and psychoanalysis. Vampires, breast-feeding, and anxiety (extract) / Joan Copjec -- Kristeva, femininity, abjection / Barbara Creed -- 'In his bold gaze my ruin is writ large' (extract) / Slavoj Žižek -- Part 3: Monstrosities. Introduction to monstrous imagination / Marie-Heléne Huet -- Freaks / Mary Russo -- The serial killer as a type of person (extract) / Mark Seltzer -- Part 4: Many Frankensteins. 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 -- Part 5: Reading the king vampire. 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 -- Part 6: Queer horror. Dr Jekyll's closet (extract) / Elaine Showalter -- Tracking the vampire (extract) / Sue-Ellen Case -- Female spectator, lesbian specter : The Haunting (extract) / Patricia White -- Part 7: Ethnic monsters. Vampires in Greece (extract) / Ken Gelder -- King Kong and the monster in ethnographic cinema (extract) / Fatimah Tobing Rony -- Part 8: American gothic. Introduction to American horrors (extract) / Gregory A. Waller -- Introduction to American gothic (extract) / Teresa A. Goddu -- Part 9: Reading splatter/slasher cinema. Horrality : the textuality of contemporary horror films / Philip Brophy -- The terror of pleasure : the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory / Tania Modleski -- Her body, himself (extract) / Carol J. Clover -- Part 10: Lowbrow/low-budget horror. 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 -- Part 11: New regional horror. Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory / Graham Huggan -- Preposterous Hong Kong horror : Rouge's (be)hindsight and a (sodomitical) Chinese ghost story / Audrey Yue. 
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