The Wounds of Nations

Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity

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de Linnie Blake

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Horror

Mots Clés

horror, trauma, national cultures

Année d'édition

2008

Editeur

Manchester University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 232 pages
5 ¾ x 9 inches (14.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7190-7593-3

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Description de l'ouvrage:
The wounds of nations: Horror cinema, historical trauma and national identity 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.

Exploring a wide range of stylistically distinctive and generically diverse film texts, its analysis ranges from the body horror of the American 1970s to the avant-garde proclivities of German Reunification horror, from the vengeful supernaturalism of recent Japanese chillers and their American remakes to the post-Thatcherite masculinity horror of the UK and the resurgence of 'hillbilly' horror in the period following September 11th 2001. In each case, it is argued, horror cinema forces us to look again at the wounds inflicted on individuals, families, communities and nations by traumatic events such as genocide and war, terrorist outrage and seismic political change, wounds that are all too often concealed beneath ideologically expedient discourses of national cohesion.

By proffering a radical critique of the nation-state and the ideologies of identity it promulgates, horror cinema is seen to offer us a disturbing, yet perversely life affirming, means of working through the traumatic legacy of recent times.

À propos de l'auteur :
Linnie Blake is Senior Lecturer in Film, Manchester Metropolitan University

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