The Canadian Horror Film

Gina Freitag is an independent scholar and the founder of the Cellar Door Film Festival in Ottawa. André Loiselle is a professor in the Film Studies program and assistant vice-president (Academic) at Carleton University.

Terror of the Soul: An Introduction - Gina Freitag and André Loiselle


I – SHAPING THE CANADIAN HORROR LANDSCAPE

1. Monsters Up North: A Taxonomy of Terror – Caelum Vatnsdal

2. Viral Culture: Canadian Cultural Protectionism and Pontypool – Andrea Subissati


II – THE TERRITORIES OF HORROR: TERROR STORIES ON PAGE AND SCREEN

3. Blood in the Bush Garden: Indigenization, Gender and Unsettling Horror – Aalya Ahmad

4. Pure Laine Evil: The Horrifying Normality of Québec’s Ordinary Hell in the Film Adaptations of Patrick Senécal’s ‘Romans d’Épouvante’ – André Loiselle


III – A GOLDEN AGE OF GORE: THE TAX SHELTER SLASHER

5. (Who’s in the) Driver’s Seat: The Canadian Brute Unleashed in Death Weekend – Paul Corupe 

6. The Creation and Codification of the Forest Slasher during the Tax Shelter Years 1977–1982 – Mark R. Hasan


IV – THE TRUE NORTH, STRONG AND VIOLENT: ECO-HORROR IN CANADA

7. The [Hostile] Nature of Things: A Cultural Dialogue on Environmental Survival – Gina Freitag 

8. Eco-Horror and Boundary Transgressions in Orca: The Killer Whale – Peter Thompson


V – HORROR BY ANY OTHER NAME: ANIMATION AND THE AVANT GARDE

9. A Song From the Heart Beats the Devil Every Time: The Fear of Selling out in Nelvana’s The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Rock and Rule – Kier-La Janisse 

10. Where is Fear? Space, Place, and the Sense of Horror in the Canadian Avant-Garde Film – Scott Birdwise


VI – BLOOD, GUTS, AND BEYOND: AN HOMAGE TO CRONENBERG

11. Traces of Horror: the Later Films of David Cronenberg – Bill Beard

12. The Physician as Mad Scientist: A Fear of Deviant Medical Practices in the Films of David Conenberg – James Burrell

13. Contagious Characters: Cronenberg's Rabid, Demarbre's Smash Cut and the Reframing of Porn- fame – Sean Moreland


‘Canadian Mental-Case’: A Conclusion – Gina Freitag and André Loiselle


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