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Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media by Madelon Hoedt
SciFier: $150.16Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to... -
Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene Christy Tidwell (Associate Professor of English & Humanities, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology) 9780271090221
SciFier: $36.58Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world-killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the... -
Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene Christy Tidwell (Associate Professor of English & Humanities, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology) 9780271090214
SciFier: $134.66Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world-killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the... -
Re-Imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media Madelon Hoedt 9781041185079
RRP: $64.31SciFier: $58.60Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror studies. Arguably, their presence is so ubiquitous as to... -
Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century Simon Bacon 9781350285491
SciFier: $117.91An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits... -
Seeing the Apocalypse by Brandon R. Grafius
SciFier: $117.91Seeing the Apocalypse: Essays on Bird Box is the first volume to explore Josh Malerman's best-selling novel and its recent film adaptation, which broke streaming records and became a cultural... -
The Nightmare Before Christmas Dr. Filipa Antunes (Lecturer in Humanities, University of East Anglia, UK) 9798765113608
SciFier: $41.53This edited collection considers The Nightmare Before Christmas as a milestone in animation and film history, considering the different layers of meaning and history of the film from pre-production... -
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror Victoria McCollum 9781611463071
SciFier: $124.61Taking a theoretical, historical and critical approach to horror directed by women, Bloody Women considers how the gender landscape of horror filmmaking is changing. It unearths the long and rich... -
Bloody Women: Women Directors of Horror Victoria McCollum 9781611463095
SciFier: $45.55Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural... -
Horror and Indigeneity: Literature, Film, and Television Murray Leeder 9781477334133
RRP: $58.96SciFier: $49.46A collection of essays about Indigeneity and horror in cinema, literature, and beyond. How did Indigeneity come to be horrifying? Think of the "Indian burial ground" trope, a staple of 1970s horror... -
Games of Terror by Vera Dika
SciFier: $91.78This is a historical and structural study of the Stalker Film. As a subcategory of the more general Slasher Film, the Stalker Film is often characterised by an off-screen presence that dominates the... -
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture by Miranda Corcoran
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $30.81In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films, novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9780230319417
SciFier: $151.41The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films,... -
Violence in the Films of Stephen King by Tony Magistrale
SciFier: $117.91In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King's work-ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most... -
Torture Porn: Popular Horror after Saw Steve Jones 9781349339952
RRP: $147.39SciFier: $124.61The first monograph to critically engage with the controversial horror film subgenre known as 'torture porn', this book dissects press responses to popular horror and analyses key torture porn films,... -
Theatre and the Macabre by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $30.81The 'macabre', as a process and product, has been haunting the theatre - and more broadly, performance - for thousands of years. In its embodied meditations on death and dying, its thematic and... -
Horror in Classical Literature by Edmund P. Cueva
SciFier: $91.78No in- or out-of-print book has the same goals, content, wide range, and scholarly approach as the present study. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, previously published books have neglected... -
Horror and Comics by Barbara Chamberlin
SciFier: $91.78This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. International contributors explore how multiple aspects of comics (forms, cultures,... -
Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic by Carey Millsap-Spears
SciFier: $104.51While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star... -
The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture B. Murphy 9780230218109
SciFier: $124.61The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road... -
Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer Sorcha Ni Fhlainn 9780719096921
RRP: $120.60SciFier: $89.55Clive Barker: Dark imaginer explores the diverse literary, film and visionary creations of the polymathic and influential British artist Clive Barker. In this necessary and timely collection,... -
Queer for Fear by Heather O. Petrocelli
RRP: $80.40SciFier: $73.02Queer for Fear analyses the relationship queer people have to horror film, building upon decades of theory that previously emphasised horror's queerness as being subtextual, allegorical and... -
Vampires in Italian Cinema, 1956-1975 Michael Guarneri 9781474458122
RRP: $28.13SciFier: $27.23Positioning itself at the intersection of Italian film history, horror studies and cultural studies, this fascinating book asks why, and how, was the protean, transnational and transmedial figure of... -
Urban Legends: and the Cultural Geography of Horror Irena Jurkovic 9781837723256
RRP: $100.50SciFier: $91.78Blending folklore studies, media theory, horror criticism and cultural geography, this collection charts an unprecedented map of urban-legend storytelling, from haunted cemeteries to pixelated... -
Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse Lorna Piatti-Farnell 9781666907209
SciFier: $131.31If there is an opposite to the Gothic, it may seem to be the carefully crafted "family friendly" image of Disney. However, through careful attention to the pervasiveness of Gothic elements in all of... -
The Birth of the American Horror Film Gary D. Rhodes 9781474430869
RRP: $36.17SciFier: $33.78Although early cinema has long been a key area of research in film studies, the origin and development of the horror film has been a neglected subject for what is arguably one of the world's most... -
Horror Franchise Cinema Mark McKenna (Bournemouth University, UK) 9781032105871
RRP: $58.95SciFier: $53.95This book explores horror film franchising from a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives and considers the horror film's role in the history of franchising and serial fiction.Comprising 12... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205771
RRP: $40.20SciFier: $33.59What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
Horror Film and Otherness Adam Lowenstein 9780231205764
RRP: $156.78SciFier: $126.38What do horror films reveal about social difference in the everyday world? Criticism of the genre often relies on a dichotomy between monstrosity and normality, in which unearthly creatures and... -
Japanese Horror Culture by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
SciFier: $118.58Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the... -
Body Gothic by Xavier Aldana Reyes
RRP: $93.80SciFier: $91.78The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that... -
Violence in the Films of Stephen King by Michael J. Blouin
SciFier: $45.55In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King's work-ranging from the earliest films in the King canon to his most... -
Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss Erica Joan Dymond 9781793633934
SciFier: $124.61Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Contemporary Horror Cinema: Screening Loss examines the... -
The Postmodern Slasher Film Steve Jones (Assistant Professor in Media and Film, Northumbria University) 9781399537100
RRP: $33.49SciFier: $29.40Scream reputedly transformed the slasher subgenre in 1996, heralding a new subgeneric form: the postmodern slasher. Despite being a distinctive, influential phase in the subgenre's development, it... -
Criminological Understandings of Horror Films: Reel Fear Krista S. Gehring 9781666946703
SciFier: $124.61This book examines horror films through a critical criminological lens. Each chapter considers how the genre impacts audiences and their understanding of topics like place, crime, and identity.About... -
The Spanish Fantastic: Contemporary Filmmaking in Horror, Fantasy and Sci-fi Shelagh Rowan-Legg (Independent researcher, Canada) 9781350242425
RRP: $44.21SciFier: $37.51In recent decades, the Spanish 'fantastic' has been at the forefront of genre filmmaking. Films such as The Day of the Beast, the Rec trilogy, The Orphanage and Timecrimes have received widespread... -
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television by Brett A.B. Robinson (Brock University, Canada)
SciFier: $53.95This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical... -
Gothic Mash-Ups: Hybridity, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Gothic Storytelling Natalie Neill 9781793636577
SciFier: $117.91Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation,... -
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? David Roche 9781496802545
RRP: $38.79SciFier: $30.49In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better... -
Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don't They Do It Like They Used To? David Roche 9781617039621
SciFier: $97.75In Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s author David Roche takes up the assumption shared by many fans and scholars that original horror movies are more ""disturbing,"" and thus better...