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The wounds of nations
Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity
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Artikel-Nr:
9780719075940
Veröffentl:
2012
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.03.2012
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Linnie Blake
Gewicht:
333 g
Format:
216x140x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film, Manchester Metropolitan University
Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.
Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinemaI German and Japanese horror - the traumatic legacy of world war twoII The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse nowIII: From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the American poor whiteIV: New Labour new horrors - the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinityConclusionsBibliographyFilmographyIndex