The Philosophy of Horror by Thomas Fahy (Editor)
Introduction / Thomas Fahy -- Horror and the idea of everyday life: on skeptical threats in Psycho and The birds / Philip J. Nickel -- Through a mirror, darkly: art-horror as a medium for moral reflection / Philip Tallon -- The justification of torture-horror: retribution and sadism in Saw, Hostel, and The devil's rejects / Jeremy Morris -- Hobbes, human nature, and the culture of American violence in Truman Capote's In cold blood / Thomas Fahy -- Making their presence known: TV's ghost-hunter phenomenon in a "post-" world / Jessica O'Hara -- The vampire with a soul: Angel and the quest for identity / Amy Kind -- Ideological formations of the nuclear family in The hills have eyes / Lorena Russell -- Zombies of the world, unite: class struggle and alienation in Land of the dead / John Lutz -- The fall of the house of Ulmer: Europe vs. America in the gothic vision of The black cat / Paul A. Cantor -- From domestic nightmares to the nightmare of history: uncanny eruptions of violence in King's and Kubrick's versions of The Shining / John Lutz -- "Hot with rapture and cold with fear": grotesque, sublime, and postmodern transformations in Patrick Süskind's Perfume / Susann Cokal -- Shock value: a deleuzean Encounter with James Purdy's Narrow rooms / Robert F. Gross -- Making monsters: the philosophy of reproduction in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Universal Films Frankenstein and The bride of Frankenstein / Ann C. Hall -- Kitsch and camp and things that go bump in the night; or, Sontag and Adorno at the (horror) movies / David MacGregor Johnston.
Location: Mugar Stacks PN1995.9.H6 P45 2010 and Online
Publication Date: 2010