The Spaces And Places Of Horror
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The Spaces And Places Of Horror
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Author : Francesco Pascuzzi
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2020-01-16
The Spaces And Places Of Horror written by Francesco Pascuzzi and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-16 with Art categories.
This volume explores the complex horizon of landscapes in horror film culture to better understand the use that the genre makes of settings, locations, spaces, and places, be they physical, imagined, or altogether imaginary. In The Philosophy of Horror, Noël Carroll discusses the “geography” of horror as often situating the filmic genre in liminal spaces as a means to displace the narrative away from commonly accepted social structures: this use of space is meant to trigger the audience’s innate fear of the unknown. This notion recalls Freud’s theorization of the uncanny, as it is centered on recognizable locations outside of the Lacanian symbolic order. In some instances, a location may act as one of the describing characteristics of evil itself: In A Nightmare on Elm Street teenagers fall asleep only to be dragged from their bedrooms into Freddy Krueger’s labyrinthine lair, an inescapable boiler room that enhances Freddie’s powers and makes him invincible. In other scenarios, the action may take place in a distant, little-known country to isolate characters (Roth’s Hostel films), or as a way to mythicize the very origin of evil (Bava’s Black Sunday). Finally, anxieties related to the encroaching presence of technology in our lives may give rise to postmodern narratives of loneliness and disconnect at the crossing between virtual and real places: in Kurosawa’s Pulse, the internet acts as a gateway between the living and spirit worlds, creating an oneiric realm where the living vanish and ghosts move to replace them. This suggestive topic begs to be further investigated; this volume represents a crucial addition to the scholarship on horror film culture by adopting a transnational, comparative approach to the analysis of formal and narrative concerns specific to the genre by considering some of the most popular titles in horror film culture alongside lesser-known works for which this anthology represents the first piece of relevant scholarship.
Dark Places
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Author : Barry Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2009-02-15
Dark Places written by Barry Curtis and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where the evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. These mysterious spaces foment the terror at the heart of horror movies, empowering the ghastly creatures that emerge to kill and torment. With Dark Places, Barry Curtis leads us deep inside these haunted spaces to explore them – and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there. In this wide-ranging and compelling study, Curtis demonstrates how the claustrophobic interiors of haunted spaces in films connect to the ‘dark places’ of the human psyche. He examines diverse topics such as the special effects – ranging from crude to state-of-the-art – used in movies to evoke supernatural creatures; the structures, projections and architecture of horror movie sets; and ghosts as symbols of loss, amnesia, injustice and vengeance. Dark Places also examines the reconfiguration of the haunted house in film as a motel, an apartment, a road or a spaceship, and how these re-imagined spaces thematically connect to Gothic fictions. Curtis draws his examples from numerous iconic films – including Nosferatu, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Shining – as well as lesser-known international works, which allow him to consider different cultural ideas of ‘haunting’. Japanese horror films and their Hollywood remakes – such as Ringu and The Ring, or Juon and The Grudge – come under particular scrutiny, as he explores Japanese cinema’s preoccupation with malevolent forces from the past. Whether you love the splatter of blood or prefer to hide under the couch, Dark Places cuts to the heart of why we are drawn to carnage.
Small Spaces
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Author : Katherine Arden
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-09-25
Small Spaces written by Katherine Arden and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic. After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't think—she just acts, stealing the book and running away. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with "the smiling man," a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she's been reading about. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? Ollie doesn't have too long to think about the answer to that. On the way home, the school bus breaks down, sending their teacher back to the farm for help. But the strange bus driver has some advice for the kids left behind in his care: "Best get moving. At nightfall they'll come for the rest of you." Nightfall is, indeed, fast descending when Ollie's previously broken digital wristwatch, a keepsake reminder of better times, begins a startling countdown and delivers a terrifying message: RUN. Only Ollie and two of her classmates heed the bus driver's warning. As the trio head out into the woods—bordered by a field of scarecrows that seem to be watching them—the bus driver has just one final piece of advice for Ollie and her friends: "Avoid large places. Keep to small." And with that, a deliciously creepy and hair-raising adventure begins.
The Spaces And Places Of Canadian Popular Culture
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Author : Victoria Kannen
language : en
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Release Date : 2019-08-28
The Spaces And Places Of Canadian Popular Culture written by Victoria Kannen and has been published by Canadian Scholars’ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An exclusively Canadian textbook, this collection investigates the relationships between identity, geography, and popular culture that are produced and consumed in this sprawling country. Expanding beyond the clichés of friendliness and snow, this text provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Canadian, both nationally and transnationally. Scholars look at historical subjects like Québécois identity and Indigenous self-representation and explore issues in contemporary media, including music, film, television, comic books, video games, and social media. From Drake to the Tragically Hip, Trailer Park Boys to The Amazing Race Canada, and poutine to maple syrup, mainstream icons and trends are studied in the interdisciplinary context of race, gender, sexuality, politics, and patriotism. Contributing to the location of Canadian popular culture, this unique resource will engage students and scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, and Canadian studies. FEATURES - Includes key concepts and theories and a glossary - Engages students with relatable historical and contemporary examples of Canadiana through a breadth of media, including television shows, websites, journals, celebrities, newspapers, literature, comic books, video games, music, and films - Ensures equal representation of a national and transnational Canada, which includes examples of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, with particular attention to geographical intricacies that contain all provinces and territories
Monstrous Geographies Places And Spaces Of The Monstrous
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Author : Sarah Montin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Monstrous Geographies Places And Spaces Of The Monstrous written by Sarah Montin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Social Science categories.
Ghostland In Search Of A Haunted Country
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Author : Edward Parnell
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2019-10-17
Ghostland In Search Of A Haunted Country written by Edward Parnell and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 ‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare ‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country
The Routledge Companion To Masculinity In American Literature And Culture
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Author : Lydia R. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-26
The Routledge Companion To Masculinity In American Literature And Culture written by Lydia R. Cooper and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity through the lens of cultural narratives in many forms and expressions, The Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture suggests that how we examine the stories that shape us in turn shapes our understanding of our current reality and gives us language for imagining better futures. Masculinity is more than a description of traits associated with particular performances of gender. It is more than a study of gender and social power. It is an examination of the ways in which gender affects our capacity to engage ethically with each other in complex human societies. This volume offers essays from a range of established, global experts in American masculinity as well as new and upcoming scholars in order to explore not just what masculinity once meant, has come to mean, and may mean in the future in the U.S.; it also articulates what is at stake with our conceptions of masculinity.
The Spaces And Places Of Fear
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Author : Ann Davies
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2025-03-06
The Spaces And Places Of Fear written by Ann Davies and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-06 with Performing Arts categories.
From haunted houses to open fields, The Spaces and Places of Fear explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through film and TV. With an emphasis on horror and the Gothic, this book takes case studies from Spain to propose new approaches to the spaces and places of fear and fantasy. With the primary aim of marrying the spatial turn in film studies with genre study of horror and Gothic film, Professor Ann Davies draws not only on film theory and film analysis but also her own insights from working in the industry and explores approaches to the question of setting in such films through both creative and practical decision-making. Case studies include internationally renowned films, lesser known films which have not received distribution beyond Spain, and films made both in Spanish and English, as well as TV programmes which by and large have not travelled beyond Spain, including the [REC] franchise, Insensibles (Painless, Juan Carlos Medina), ¿Quién puede matar a un niño? (Who Can Kill A Child?, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador), Los cronocrímenes (Time Crimes, Nacho Vigalondo), and El día de la bestia (The Day of the Beast), among others.
Horror In The Age Of Steam
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Author : Carroll Clayton Savant
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Horror In The Age Of Steam written by Carroll Clayton Savant and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Change is terrifying, and rapid change, within a small amount of time, is destabilizing to any culture. England, under the tutelage of Queen Victoria, witnessed precipitous change the likes of which it had not encountered in generations. Wholesale swaths of the economy and the social structure underwent complete recalibration, through the hands of economic progress, industrial innovation, scientific discovery, and social cohesiveness. Faced with such change, Britons had to redefine the concept of work, belief, and even what it meant to be English. Victorians relied on many methods to attempt to release the steam from the anxieties incurred through change, and one of those methods was the horror story of everyday existence during an age of transition. This book is a study of how authors Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë turned to horrifying representations of everyday reality to illustrate the psychological-traumatic terrors of an age of transition
Theatrical Spaces And Dramatic Places
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Author : Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1996
Theatrical Spaces And Dramatic Places written by Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.) and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
This volume brings together experts in the field of Renaissance theatre architecture. It considers concepts and applications of theatrical space during the early modern period.