Horror after 9/11 world of fear, cinema of terror / [electronic resource] :
Horror after September eleven
edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller.
- 1st ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press, c2011.
- vi, 263 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
Introduction / Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller -- Why horror? Black screens, lost bodies: the cinematic apparatus of 9/11 horror / Laura Frost -- Let's roll: Hollywood takes on 9/11 / Elisabeth Ford -- Transforming horror : David Cronenberg's cinematic gestures after 9/11 / Adam Lowenstein -- Horror looks at itself. Caught on tape? the politics of video in the new torture film / Catherine Zimmer -- Cutting into concepts of "reflectionist" cinema? the saw franchise and puzzles of post-9/11 horror / Matt Hills -- The host versus Cloverfield / Homay King -- "Shop \'til you drop!": consumerism and horror / Aviva Briefel -- Horror in action -- Historicizing the Bush years: politics, horror film, and Francis Lawrence's I am legend / Steffen Hantke -- "I am the devil and I'm here to do the devil's work": Rob Zombie, George W. Bush, and the limits of American freedom / Linnie Blake -- "Forever family" values: Twilight and the modern Mormon vampire / Travis Sutton and Harry M. Benshoff -- Assimilation and the queer monster / Sam J. Miller.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
9780292726628 9780292735330 (e-book)
Horror films--History and criticism. Terror in motion pictures. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.