Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless ‘antagonist’ that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves.
Table of Content
Introduction: Imagining the Ends of Horror and of Humanity 1. Meta-horror and Simulation in the Scream series and The Cabin in the Woods 2. The Image Goes Viral: Virtual Hauntings in The Ring and Feardotcom 3. The Image as Voracious Eye in The Blair Witch Project, the Paranormal Activity series, and Cloverfield 4. Memory, Pregnancy, and Technological Archive in Dark Water and The Forgotten 5. The End of Patriarchy: Defining the Postmodern Prometheus in Splice and Prometheus 6. Conclusion: A New Mythology for Techno-Humanity
About the author
Kimberly Jackson is Associate Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA.
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