Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: traumatic events and international horror cinemaI German and Japanese horror - the traumatic legacy of world war twoII The traumatised 1970s and the threat of apocalypse nowIII: From Vietnam to 9/11: the Orientalist other and the American poor whiteIV: New Labour new horrors - the post-Thatcherite crisis of British masculinityConclusionsBibliographyFilmographyIndex