The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century

Buch | Hardcover

340 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4339-1 (ISBN)

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The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century explores the many aspects of the horror genre across thematics and media in the 2020s. Consisting of 21 original essays by experts in the field, this book examines how horror reveals the anxieties around our current cultural moment and how that might develop in the future.

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre- women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being seen and finding space to speak.

Simon Bacon is an independent scholar and film critic based in Poznań, Poland.

Part I: Frameworks and Classics of 21st Century Horror

Chapter 1. Horror Theory Now: Thinking About Horror

Kevin Corstophine

Chapter 2. Decadent Feasts: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Twenty-First-Century Prestige Horror Television

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Chapter 3. Horror Cinema and Censorship in the Twenty-first Century

Neil Jackson

CHAPTER 4. The Recurrence and Evolution of Universal’s Classic Monsters in Twenty-first Century Horror

M. Keith Booker

Chapter 5. The Remixing (and Ransacking) of Hill House: Surveying the Spectral Presence of Shirley Jackson in Contemporary Gothic Fiction

Joan Passey

Part II: Media and Consumption

Chapter 6. Further Notes Towards a Monster Pedagogy

John Edgar Browning

Chapter 7. Sounding Horror: Ballads, Ring Shouts, and the Power of Music in Black Horror

Erik Steinskog

Chapter 8. The Evolution of Horror on Stage

Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.

Chapter 9. Hauntify the World: New Directions in Video Game Horror

Gwyneth Peaty

Chapter 10. The Evolution of Horror and New Media

Carlos Littles

Frontispiece to Part III

Mother [Figure 5]

Gemma Files

Part III: Recognition and Evolution

Chapter 11. The Future of Horror: Evolution or Revolution?

Carina Bissett

Chapter 12. Black Lives Matter Horror

Maisha Wester

Chapter 13. Indigenous Horror in the Twenty-First Century

Jacob Floyd

Chapter 14. “Stepping out of the Closet”: The Evolution of Queer Representation and Tropes in Twenty-first Century Horror TV

Natasha C. Marchini

Chapter 15. Involution, Adaptation, Mutation: Horror’s Disability Dynamics

Angela M. Smith

Chapter 16. Sympathy for the Candyman: The Politics of the Past in Supernatural Horror

Brandon Grafius

Part IV: Evolving Themes

Chapter 17. The Future Promise for Folk Horror

Mikel J. Koven

Chapter 18. The Rise in Ecohorror and Ecogothic Criticism

Teresa Fitzpatrick

Chapter 19. Undying Earth: Extinction Romances in the Age of Anthropocene

Ian Fetters

Chapter 20. Fear of Infection: Negotiating between Community and Isolation in Gothic Contagion Narratives

Laura R. Kremmel

Chapter 21. The Metal and the Flesh: Techno-liminalities, Bio-subversion, and the Enhanced Super-Body as a Horror Space

Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Erscheinungsdatum	02.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Lexington Books Horror Studies
Co-Autor	Carina Bissett, M. Keith Booker, John Edgar Browning, Kevin Corstorphine
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 235 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-7936-4339-3 / 1793643393
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4339-1 / 9781793643391
Zustand	Neuware