Blake The wounds of nations

Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-162-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Explores the ways in which the unashamedly disturbing conventions of international horror cinema allow audiences to engage with the traumatic legacy of the recent past in a manner that has serious implications for the ways in which we conceive of ourselves both as gendered individuals and as members of a particular nation-state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blake, Linnie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinema
I German and Japanese horror – the traumatic legacy of world war two

II The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse now

III: From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the American poor white

IV: New Labour new horrors – the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinity
Conclusions
Bibliography
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Blake Linnie:

Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film in Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of EnglishLinnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film, Manchester Metropolitan University