Horror International

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ISBN: 9780814331019 | 0814331017
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/30/2005

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A close look at horror films from around the world, drawing attention to neglected social, cultural, and ideological aspects of the horror genre in international cinema.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

(14)

Steven Jay Schneider and Tony Williams

I. THE DYNAMICS OF CROSS-CULTURAL HORROR EXCHANGE

1. Blood and Black Gloves on Shiny Discs: New Media, Old Tastes, and the Remediation of Italian Horror Films in the United States

(18)

Raiford Guins

2. Importation/Mexploitation, or, How a Crime-Fighting, Vampire-Slaying Mexican Wrestler Almost Found Himself in an Italian Sword-and-Sandals Epic

(23)

Andrew Syder and Dolores Tierney

3. The Dialogue with American Popular Culture in Two German Films about the Serial Killer

(27)

Steffen Hantke

II. HAUNTING HISTORIES AND REGIONAL G^THICS

4. The Return of History as Horror: Onibaba and the Atomic Bomb

(15)

Jyotsna Kapur

5. "Terror Australis": Areas of Horror in the Australian Cinema

(16)

Jonathan Rayner

6. Kiwi Gothic: New Zealand's Cinema of a Perilous Paradise

114

(14)

Ian Conrich

7. Irish Horror: Neil Jordan and the Anglo-Irish Gothic

128

(13)

Brian McIlroy

8. Thailand Haunted: The Power of the Past in the Contemporary Thai Horror Film

141

(22)

Adam Knee

III. HORROR IN THE SOCIAL REALM

9. The Spanish Horror Film as Subversive Text: Eloy de la Iglesia's La semana del asesino

163

(17)

Andrew Willis

10. Genre Bending and Gender Bonding: Masculinity and Repression in Dutch "Thriller" Cinema

180

(23)

Steven Jay Schneider and Kevin W. Sweeney

11. Hong Kong Social Horror: Tragedy and Farce in Category 3

203

(17)

Tony Williams

12. Beyond Dracula and Ceausescu: Phenomenology of Horror in Romanian Cinema

220

(15)

Christina Stojanova

13. Snapping Up Schoolgirls: Legitimation Crisis in Recent Canadian Horror

235

(24)

Suzie Young

IV. CONTESTED HORROR TRADITIONS

14. Beyond the Genre Formula: Implicit Horror in the Films of Jan Svankmajer

259

(14)

Jan Uhde

15. Egypt: A Cinema without Horror?

273

(17)

Viola Spafik

16. Witch, Burn: A First ]Look at the Scandinavian Horror Film

290

(25)

Rehecca A. Umland and, Samuel J. Umland

17. Man Bites Dog and the Critical Reception of Belgian Horror (in) Cinema

315

(21)

Ernest Mathijs

18. Exercising the Devil: Russian Cinema and Horror

336

(23)

Josephine Woll

Contributors

359

(4)

Index

363

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