All Kinds of Scary
Diversity in Contemporary Horror
Summary: Horror fictions display a wealth of potential, and appeal to a variety of diverse audiences. However, the trope of “the black man always dies first” still haunts the genre. This research focuses on what the author argues is the latest cycle of diversity in horror fictions, starting with the release of Get Out in 2017, which inspired a new speculative turn for representation in horror fiction. Using various critical frameworks like feminism and colonialism, this work also assesses diversity gaps in horror fictions, with an emphasis on marketing and storytelling methodology. By reviewing the canon and definitions of horror, historical significance may point to influences for present and future implications of diversity, which has cyclically manifested in horror fictions throughout history. This book studies horror fictions from literature, film and television while acknowledging that each of the formats are distinct artforms that complement each other. The author compares diverse representation in novels like The Castle of Otranto, Frankenstein, Fledgling, Broken Monsters, and Mexican Gothic. Horror films like Bride of Frankenstein, It Comes at Night, Us and Get Out are also examined. Lastly, the author emphasizes the diverse horror fictions in television, like The Exorcist, Fear the Walking Dead, The Twilight Zone, and Castle Rock.
Author:
Jonina Anderson-Lopez is an assistant professor of instruction at the University of South Florida.
Expected Date: April 2, 2023
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 181
Bibliographic Info: ca. 20 photos, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2023
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8866-4
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4911-5
Imprint: McFarland
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Horror and Philosophy
Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and Literature
Summary: Horror, no matter the medium, has always retained some influence of philosophy. Horror literature, cinema, comic books and television expose audiences to an “alien” reality, playing with the logical mind and challenging “known” concepts such as normality, reality, family, and animals. Both making strange what was previously familiar, philosophy and horror feed each other.
This edited collection investigates the intersections of horror and philosophical thinking, spanning across media including literature, cinema, and television. Topics covered include the cinema of David Lynch; Scream and Alien: Resurrection; the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges and H. P. Lovecraft; horror authors Blake Crouch and Paul Tremblay; Indian film; the television series Atlanta; and the horror comic book Dylan Dog. Philosophers discussed include Julia Kristeva, George Berkeley, Michel Foucault, and the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit. Using philosophies like posthumanism, Afro-Pessimism and others, it explores connections between nightmare allegories, postmodern fragmentation, the human sublime and much more.
Author:
Subashish Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Bengal, India. He edits the interdisciplinary online journal The Apollonian and is an editor for the journal Muse India.
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is a professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)—Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Argentina), where he teaches courses on international horror film.
Expected: June 2, 2023
Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 230
Bibliographic Info: notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2023
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8760-5
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4949-8
Imprint: McFarland
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Horror Dogs
Man’s Best Friend as Movie Monster
Brian Patrick Duggan is the author of Saluki: The Desert Hound and the English Travelers Who Brought It to the West, and numerous articles on canine history which have been published in AKC Family Dog, AKC Gazette, Greasy Grass: The Journal of the Custer Battlefield Historical & Museum Association and Research Review: The Journal of the Little Big Horn Associates, among others. He is a retired university technology educator, an active American Kennel Club judge, and the editor for McFarland’s Dogs in Our World series.
Brian Patrick Duggan
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Bibliographic Info: ca. 55 photos, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2023
pISBN: 978-1-4766-8587-8
eISBN: 978-1-4766-4948-1
Imprint: McFarland
Series: Dogs in Our World
Nooks Reviews:
“Brian Duggan’s Horror Dogs is, quite honestly, a marvel. Dense with detail, it is infused with humor and a light touch. Duggan has taken an unlikely subject, and, through a ferocious combination of scholarly obsession and deft writing, turned it into that rarest of breeds: a book which teaches you things you didn’t know you wanted to learn.”—Alexandra Horowitz, author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know and The Year of the Puppy: How Dogs Become Themselves
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Horror on the Stage
Monsters, Murders and Terrifying Moments in Theater
There are numerous publications about the horror genre in film and television, but none that provide information about horror on a legitimate stage until now. This book highlights the most terrifying moments in theater history, from Classical plays like Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound and Euripides’ Medea to the violence of the Grand Guignol company productions in 18th-century France and present-day productions, like Stephen Sondheim’s musical Sweeney Todd, Stephen King’s Carrie and dark 21st-century plays by Clive Barker and Conor McPherson.
The book compiles the history and behind-the-scenes tales surrounding stage productions about monsters, hauntings and horrors both historical and imagined. Among the documented productions are nightmarish adaptations of popular writings from Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, as well as plays starring popular characters like Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Woman in Black. More than 500 plays are documented, accompanied by dozens of photographs. Entries include plot synopses, existing production data, and evaluations by critics and scholars.
Amnon Kabatchnik has served as professor of theater at several top universities. In New York, on the road and in summer stock he directed dramas, comedies, and thrillers, earning the Lola D’Annunzio Honorary Citation for Outstanding Contribution to the Off-Broadway Theater. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
Expected: April 2, 2023
Amnon Kabatchnik
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 248
Bibliographic Info: ca. 100 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2022
pISBN: 978-1-4766-7555-8
Imprint: McFarland
Price $75.00
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