Journeys into Terror

Cynthia J. Miller, a cultural anthropologist focussing on popular culture and visual media, teaches in the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College in Boston. She is the editor or coeditor of more than a dozen scholarly volumes, many exploring the horror genre. A. Bowdoin Van Riper is an historian specializing in depictions of science and technology in popular culture. He is the reference librarian at the Martha's Vineyard Museum, and is the author or editor of a wide range of volumes, ranging from science to science fiction to horror.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper
I. Power and Privilege
Vengeance, Voyage, and Identity Deconstruction in Jordan Peele's
Michael C. Reiff
"The line is broken": The River and the Road to Cultural Extinction in Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente, 2015)
Thomas Prasch
Clashing Routes: Horror, Violence, and Resistance in Bacurau (2019)
Alexandre Busko Valim and Rafaela Arienti Barbieri
Journeys into Depravity in (Post)Colonial Australia: Colonizer versus Colonized Identity and "Otherness" in Wake in Fright
and The Nightingale
Sean Woodard
II. Journeys to Hell
Heterotopic Hell Ride on The Midnight Meat Train
Ana Došen
Facing the Inhuman on the Train to Busan
Susan L. Boulanger
Flights from Hell: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and the Horrors of Aviation
Lindsey Michael Banco
The Road Goes On Forever, and the Horror Never Ends
Cynthia J. Miller
III. Uncanny Landscapes
Irradiated, Irrational, Irreclaimable: ­Post-Soviet Adventures in Chernobyl Diaries and Devil's Pass
Sara Jo Powell
Uncharted Waters: Island of Lost Souls (1932), Horror Island (1941), Isle of the Dead (1945)
James J. Ward
(Don't) Go East: Eastern Europe as the Land of Horrors
Barbara Plotz
Not Without My Terror: The Middle East as a Fertile Crescent of Western Dread
Mat Hardy and Sally Totman
IV. Postcards from the Edge
Midsommar's Journey of Moral Terror
Benjamin Franz
"We are not who we are": (Re)Visiting Reflexive Horror Landscapes in The Cabin in the Woods and The Final Girls
Catherine Pugh
"Any chance we're ever gonna get out of here?" Southern Comfort and the Horrors of Southern (In)Hospitality
Karen Horsley
V. Quests Fraught with Terror
"Give a bad boy enough rope…": Body Horror at Journey's End in Disney's Pinocchio
Richard J. Leskosky
Off the Edge of the Map: The Descent
Phil Hobbins-White
Out of Time: Missed Connections and Existential Horrors in The Langoliers (1995)
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
About the Contributors
Index