Culture Wars and Horror Movies

Noelia Gregorio-Fernández is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the International University of La Rioja, Spain. She was a visiting scholar at the CSER at Columbia University, New York (USA), and is the author of The Rebel of Chicano Cinema: Robert Rodriguez in the Transnational Era (2020).

Carmen M. Méndez-García is an Associate Professor of American Literature at the Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Current research and teaching interests include twentieth and twenty-first-century U.S. literature, postmodernism and contemporary fiction, the Countercultures in the U.S., Spatial studies, Gender studies, and Medical Humanities.

Part I: Female Bodies/Disposable Bodies.- 1. "Woke Gal Gone Bad: Gender Trouble and Populism in Ready or Not (2019) and Wrong Turn (2021)" Eduardo Valls Oyarzun.- 2 "Moral Waste in the Key of Horror: The Perfection (2018) and the #MeToo Movement Onscreen "Noelia Gregorio-Fernández.- 3. "Rape Culture, Horror, Genre Hybridization and Feminist Reception in Jennifer's Body (2009) and Promising Young Woman (2020)" Asier Gil Vázquez.- 4. "The Culture that Can't Anymore: Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019) as Pilgrimage of a Traumatized Society"Marta Brkljacic.- 5. "Universal Darkness: A Transnational Perspective on Social Horror"Elena Furlanetto._Part II: Female as Creation Force Revisited.- 6. "Mother! Nature: Creation, Apocalypse, Climate Skepticism, and Darren Aronofsky's Mother! (2017)" Zachary Ingle.- 7. "Monsters, Women, and Magic: Intersecting Hierarchies of Gender and Religion in The Witch (2015)" Cristina Casado Presa.- 8. "Nature and Horror: An Ecocritical Reading of Take Shelter (2011)" Nisa Harika Güzel Kösker._Part III: Gender(ed) Anxieties.- 9. "The Masculinities of Neo-Confederate Cultural Warfare in Antebellum (2020)" Juan José Arroyo-Paniagua and Steven McClain.- 10. "Gaslighting, Entrapping, and Trauma: Notes on #MeToo Horror Films" Todd K._Platts.- 11. "Aging as a Trope in American Horror Movies: From The Children of the Corn (1984) to The Visit (2015)" Marta Miquel-Baldellou.-12. "Searching for 'The Final Girl': We Are What We Are (2013), Missing Testimonials, and Media Invisibility of Missing and Murdered Mexican Indigenous Women" Mayra Ramales.