Mastering Fear

Women, Emotions, and Contemporary Horror

Rikke Schubart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6161-6 (ISBN)

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Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. In horror we engage not only with the negative emotions of fear and disgust, but with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age.

Since the turn of the millennium, we have seen a new generation of female protagonists in horror. There are feisty teens in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), troubled mothers in The Babadook (2014), and struggling women in the New French extremity with Martyrs (2008) and Inside (2007). At the fuzzy edges of the genre are dramas like Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Black Swan (2010), and middle-age women are now protagonists with Carol in The Walking Dead (2010–) and Jessica Lange’s characters in American Horror Story (2011–). Horror is not just for men, but also for women, and not just for the young, but for audiences of all ages.

Rikke Schubart is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Her research focuses on gender, genre, and emotions in cinema and media. Schubart's publications include Bloomsbury's recent Women of Ice and Fire: Gender, Game of Thrones and Multiple Media Engagements (2016, co-edited with Anne Gjelsvik), Eastwood's Iwo Jima: A Critical Engagement with Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima (2013, co-edited with Anne Gjelsvik), and Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006 (2007).

Introduction: Approaching the Problem
PART ONE: THE DARK STAGE
1. Emotions
2. Gender
3. Play
PART TWO: THE HORROR HEROINE
CHILD
4. Mud, Blood, and Magic: Death and Gender in Pan’s Labyrinth
5. “Be Me For a Little While”: The Bio-Logic of Vengeance in Let the Right One In
TEEN & EMERGING ADULT
6. Werewolf Affordances
7. Lust, Trust, and Educational Torture
ADULT
8. Sense and Self: Disgust and Self-Injury
9. The Maternal Myth: Birth, Breastfeeding, Mothering
MIDDLE AGE
10. Home and Road: Carol’s Change in The Walking Dead
11. Age Anxiety and Gender Play: Jessica Lange and American Horror Story
OLD
12. Old Witch and New Woman: Re-Authoring the Old Age Stereotype
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	47 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5013-6161-9 / 1501361619
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-6161-6 / 9781501361616
Zustand	Neuware