S(p)lasher flicks : the swimming pool in horror cinema /
"In this first-of-its-kind book, Cullen Wade dissects over 100 horror films, covering nine decades and four continents, in an engaging exploration of the swimming pool as a site of secrets, sexuality, and social segregation. Drawing from cultural history, aquatics research, and a variety of soc...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2026]
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| Summary: | "In this first-of-its-kind book, Cullen Wade dissects over 100 horror films, covering nine decades and four continents, in an engaging exploration of the swimming pool as a site of secrets, sexuality, and social segregation. Drawing from cultural history, aquatics research, and a variety of sociological critiques, this work confronts aquatic monsters, suburban aliens, queer vampires, death cults, and bloody vengeance. Wade unpacks the municipal pool's tension as a health and fitness space with a history of discrimination; the way residential pools create community but also police boundaries; and how the backyard pool connotes resentment and alienation as much as it does prosperity. Whether a horror fan, swimmer, aquaphobic, or a student of pop culture, readers will find the site of the swimming pool forever transformed by this analysis."-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781476698151 1476698155 |