American horror film : the genre at the turn of the millennium /
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- They don't make 'em like they used to: on the rhetoric of crisis and the current state of American horror cinema / Steffen Hantke
- Bloody America: critical reassessments of the trans/-national and of graphic violence. The American horror film? Globalization and transnational U.S.-Asian genres / Christina Klein
- A Parisian in Hollywood: ocular horror in the films of Alexandre Aja / Tony Perrello
- "The pound of flesh which I demand": American horror cinema, gore, and the box office, 1998-2007 / Blair Davis and Kial Natale
- A (post)modern house of pain: FearDotCom and the prehistory of the post-9/11 torture film / Reynold Humphries
- The usual suspects: trends and transformations in the subgenres of American horror film. Teenage traumata: youth, affective politics, and the contemporary American horror film / Pamela Craig and Martin Fradley
- Traumatic childhood now included: Todorov's fantastic and the uncanny slasher remake / Andrew Patrick Nelson
- Whither the serial killer movie? / Philip L. Simpson
- A return to the graveyard: notes on the spiritual horror film / James Kendrick
- Look back in horror: managing the canon of American horror film. Auteurdämmerung: David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, and the twilight of (North) American horror auteur / Craig Bernardini
- How the masters of horror master their personae: self-fashioning at play in the Masters of horror DVD extras / Ben Kooyman
- "The kids of today should defend themselves against the '70s": simulating auras and marketing nostalgia in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse / Jay McRoy
- Afterword. Memory, genre, and self-narrativization, or, why I should be a more content horror fan / David Church.