The wounds of nations horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity / Linnie Blake.

Author/creator Blake, Linnie
Format Electronic
Publication InfoManchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
Descriptionvi, 223 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents German and Japanese horror : the traumatic legacy of the Second World War. The horror of the Nazi past in the reunification present : Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantiks ; Nihonjinron, women, horror : post-war national identity and the spirit of subaltern vengeance in Ringu and The ring -- The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now. 'Consumed out of the good land' : George A. Romero's horror of the 1970s ; All hail to the serial killer : America's last frontier hero in the age of Reaganite eschatology and beyond -- From Vietnam to 9/11 : the orientalist other and the American poor white. 'Squealing like a pig' : the War on Terror and the resurgence of hillbilly horror after 9/11 -- New Labour new horrors : the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity. Zombies, dog men and dragon : generic hybridity and gender crisis in British horror of the new millennium.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmography.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009290963
ISBN9780719075933
ISBN0719075939

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