New Blood

Critical Approaches to Contemporary Horror

Eddie Falvey, Jonathan Wroot, Joe Hickinbottom (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2021
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-78683-634-2 (ISBN)

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This book includes academic studies from established scholars and early career researchers, as well as fans of horror cinema. It is written for its own constituency, as well as for journalists, critics, industry specialists and students.

The taste for horror is arguably as great today as it has ever been. Since the turn of the millennium, the horror genre has seen various developments emerging out of a range of contexts, from new industry paradigms and distribution practices to the advancement of subgenres that reflect new and evolving fears. New Blood builds upon preceding horror scholarship to offer a series of critical perspectives on the genre since the year 2000, presenting a collection of case studies on topics as diverse as the emergence of new critical categories (such as the contentiously named ‘prestige horror’), new subgenres (including ‘digital folk horror’ and ‘desktop horror’) and horror on-demand (‘Netflix horror’), and including analyses of key films such as The Witch and Raw and TV shows like Stranger Things and Channel Zero. Never losing sight of the horror genre’s ongoing political economy, New Blood is an exciting contribution to film and horror scholarship that will prove to be an essential addition to the shelves of researchers, students and fans alike.

Eddie Falvey is a lecturer in contextual studies at Plymouth College of Art. Joe Hickinbottom completed his PhD on the cult reputation of Takashi Miike at the University of Exeter. Jonathan Wroot is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Greenwich.

Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Horror 2020: Introducing New Blood - Eddie Falvey, Joe Hickinbottom, Jonathan Wroot
Part One: Framing Horror
1. Apprehension Engines: The New Independent ‘Prestige Horror’ - David Church
2. Hardcore Horror: Challenging the Discourses of ‘Extremity’ - Steve Jones
3. From Midnight Movies to Mainstream Excess: Cult Horror Festivals and the Academy - Xavier Mendik
Part Two: Horror Reception
4. A Master of Horror? The Making and Marketing of Takashi Miike’s Horror Reputation - Joe Hickinbottom
5. Bloody Muscles on VHS: When Asia Extreme Met the Video Nasties - Jonathan Wroot
6. Streaming Netflix Original Horror: Black Mirror,
Stranger Things and Datafied TV Horror - Matt Hills
Part Three: Emerging Subgenres
7. The digital gothic and the Mainstream Horror Genre: Uncanny Vernacular Creativity and Adaptation - Jessica Balanzategui
8. Nazi Horror, Reanimated: Rethinking Subgenres and Cycles - Abigail Whittall
9. Digital Witness: Found Footage and Desktop Horror as Post-cinematic Experience - Lindsay Hallam
Part Four: Horror in the World
10. Revisiting the Female Monster: Sex and Monstrosity in Contemporary Body Horror - Eddie Falvey
11. The Kids are Alt-right: Hardcore Punk, Subcultural Violence and Contemporary American Politics in Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room - Thomas Joseph Watson
12. Twenty-first-century Euro-snuff: A Serbian Film for the Family - Neil Jackson
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Horror Studies
Zusatzinfo	No
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78683-634-3 / 1786836343
ISBN-13	978-1-78683-634-2 / 9781786836342
Zustand	Neuware