Hideous Progeny
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-15717-9 (ISBN)
Smith ultimately locates an indictment of biological determinism in filmmakers' visceral treatments, which take the impossibility of racial improvement and bodily perfection to sensationalistic heights. Playing up the artifice and conventions of disabled monsters, filmmakers exploited the fears and yearnings of their audience, accentuating both the perversity of the medical and scientific gaze and the debilitating experience of watching horror. Classic horror films therefore encourage empathy with the disabled monster, offering captive viewers an unsettling encounter with their own impairment. Smith's work profoundly advances cinema and disability studies, in addition to general histories concerning the construction of social and political attitudes toward the Other.
Angela M. Smith is assistant professor of English and gender studies at the University of Utah. Her essays have appeared in Post Script and College Literature as well as in the anthologies Horror Zone: The Cultural Experience of Contemporary Horror Cinema and Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the Thirties.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema 1. Eugenic Reproduction: Chimeras in Dracula and Frankenstein 2. Enfreaking the Classic Horror Genre: Freaks 3. Revelations and Convulsions: Spectacles of Impairment in Classic Horror Film 4. Mad Medicine: Disability in the Mad-Doctor Films 5. Shock Horror and Death Rays: Disabling Spectatorship Conclusion Notes Bibliography Selected Films Index
Reihe/Serie | Film and Culture Series |
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Zusatzinfo | 26 illus. |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-231-15717-7 / 0231157177 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-15717-9 / 9780231157179 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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